Literary terms

repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• onomatopoeia

• stanza

• alliteration

• personification

a central message in a literary work

• plot

• theme

• setting

• suspense

Characters who change significantly

• Static characters

• Dynamic characters

• protagonist

• antagonist

characters who change little, if at all

• protagonist

• antogonist

• static

• dynamic

The time & place

• setting

• mood

• plot

• theme

The feeling the writer creates for the reader

• personification

• imagery

• mood

• plot

The main character or hero in the story

• conflict

• protagonist

• antagonist

• dynamic

A struggle between opposing forces

• conflict

• genre

• plot

• theme

The sequence of events in a story

• setting

• mood

• plot

• theme

The ability to read, write, speak and understand words

• genre

• literacy

• first person point of view

• third person point of view