LITERARY TERMS

This is the character or force that is in conflict with the main character.

• protagonist

• Irony

• antagonist

• climax

What is a person called in a literary text?

• climax

• character

• flashback

• novel

What is the way a writer presents characters in a story called? This may include the characters’ appearance, actions, words, thoughts.

• protagonist

• Suspense

• theme

• Characterization

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CCSS.W.6.3B

What is the moment when the crisis reaches its greatest intensity called? At this point, there is a clear change in the course of events.

• climax

• theme

• antagonist

• hero

The struggle between opposing forces. In a literary text, characters often struggle with moral issues. There can be a disagreement between a character and society, or they can have a problem with another character.

• conflict

• novel

• story

• rising action

This is the time when the writer breaks the story-line to describe an event that happened before the story began.

• blackmailing

• Foreshadowing

• flashback

• plot

The central male / female character of a literary text.

• minor characters

• süperman

• heroine

• Cüneyt Arkın

This is the literary technique used by writers to create a discrepancy between what is expected, or appears to be, and what actually is.

• irony

• suspense

• symbol

• climax

This is the fictitious (made-up), book-length story of at least 100 pages.

• short story

• coursebook

• novel

• newspaper

What is the term for the sequence of actions and events in a literary text?

• plot

• pilot

• theme

• scene