Prose Literary Terms

words that appeal to the five senses

• symbolism
• imagery 
• mood
• tone 

writing that is made up or false 

• fiction 
• nonfiction

using she, he, them, or they when speaking 

• third person 
• first person

development of a character 

• prose
• narrator 
• characterization 
• point of view

man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society 

• internal conflict
• external conflict 

reader's feelings 

• mood
• tone 

person who recounts events of a story 

• person
• character
• director 
• narrator 

man vs. self 

• external 
• internal 

events of a story

• prose 
• drama 
• diagram
• plot

sentences and paragraphs 

• drama 
• prose
• poetry