Literature Terms

Events that occur in a story that build up to the climax.

• Falling Action
• Rising Action
• Problems
• Arguments

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the beginning of a story with background information and the setting.

• Introduction
• Exposition
• Start
• Summary

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The most intense part of the story.

• Conflict
• Denouement
• Climax
• Suspense

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Events that happened after the Climax that help clean up the previous problems.

• Denouement
• Rising Action
• Falling Action
• Resolution

The person or thing that stops or oppresses a character

• Protagonist
• Voldermort
• Antagonist
• Harry Potter

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An idea or lesson the author wants you to learn or know about a subject.

• Plot
• Theme
• Mood
• Character

The time, place, or physical place in which a story takes place.

• Atmosphere
• Connotation
• Theme
• Setting

Hints, clues or a warning that something will happen later in the story

• Flashback
• Setting
• Foreshadow
• Allusion

The sequence of events in a story; what happens in a story

• Plot
• Character
• Setting
• Point of View

Author’s message in his/her literary work (What is the author trying to tell you?); the main idea of a literary work; lesson that applies to life.

• Conflict
• Theme
• Irony
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D