Literary term review

The message of the story that the author is trying to give the reader

• foreshadowing

• theme

• protagonist

• suspense

The hero or central character in a story

• Antagonist

• Conflict

• Allusio

• Protagonist

The repetition of consonant sounds in a group of words close together.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Setting

• Theme

The time and place of a story

• Setting

• Theme

• Antagonist

• Conflict

A comparison made between two things which are basically dissimilar, with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them but does not use “like or “as.”

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Symbol

• Metaphor

The “all knowing” point of view where the narrator can take us all over the world, allow us to see into the minds of all the characters, and help us see events from several points of view.

• First person point of view

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

The writer tells the story from the vantage point of one character in the story.

• 1st person point of view

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

The struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature

• Symbol

• Plot

• Conflict

• Setting

A reference to a famous event, person, literary work

• Allusion

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Plot

The discrepancy between the expected results and the actual results

• Dramatic irony

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony