Literary Terms and Concepts

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Support

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Back up your ideas with evidence from the text or your own knowledge, such as using facts or details to show why something is true.

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Connecting

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Establish relationships between a text and something else, such as the reader's own experiences, other texts, or the world around them.

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Details

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Specific and supporting information that clarifies, proves, or explains the main idea or topic of a text.

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Knowledge

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Understanding or information about a subject that you obtain through experience or study.

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Relationship

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The way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected.

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Conflict

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A struggle or confrontation between opposing forces that drives the plot and reveals character.

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Dialogue

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The lines spoken by the characters.

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Figurative Language

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A type of descriptive language used to convey meaning in a way that differs from its literal meaning.

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Convey

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Express or communicate an idea, feeling, or message so that it is understood by others.

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Message

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The main idea, theme, or point that an author or speaker is trying to convey in a writing, speech, or other form of communication.