The Outsiders Literary Terms

Setting

• time and place of a story

• a person who tells a story

• the idea and feeling associated with a word

• a reference to another piece of literature or art within a story

Point of View

• The perspective from which a story is told

• the central character or hero of a story

• when an author provides hints that predict future events in a story

• non-living things are given human traits

First Person

• character within the story is telling it; “I”

• someone outside the story is telling it; “s/he”

• a person who tells a story

• less important characters who interact with the main characters

Third Person

• someone outside the story is telling it; “s/he”

• plays a large role in the story; main character

• a reference to another piece of literature or art within a story

• The perspective from which a story is told

Narrator

• a person who tells a story

• the method a writer uses to develop a character

• plays a large role in the story; main character

• the idea and feeling associated with a word

Characterization

• the method a writer uses to develop a character

• plays a large role in the story; main character

• the underlying meaning or message of a literary work

• a comparison of 2 separate things using like or as

Major Character

• plays a large role in the story; main character

• less important characters who interact with the main characters

• the central character or hero of a story

• the force working against the main character/hero

Minor Character

• less important characters who interact with the main characters

• the central character or hero of a story

• plays a large role in the story; main character

• the force working against the main character/hero

Protagonist

• the central character or hero of a story

• plays a large role in the story; main character

• less important characters who interact with

  the main characters

• the force working against the main character/hero

Antagonist

• the force working against the main character/hero

• less important characters who interact with the main characters

• plays a large role in the story; main character

• the central character or hero of a story