Literary Terms

interruptions that writers do to insert past events to provide background or context

• flashback

• alliteration

• simile

• antagonist

writer gives advance hint of what is to come later in the story

• theme

• idiom

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

overstatement that exaggerates a condition for emphasis

• personification

• conflict

• round character

• hyperbole

story narrated by one character at a time - uses "I" or "we"

• 1st person point of view

• 3rd person point of view

• flat character

• protagonist

uses "you" pronoun to narrate the story

• 3rd person point of view

• onomatopoeia

• 2nd person point of view

• simile

uses "he" or "she" as pronouns to refer to characters

• 3rd person point of view

• 1st person point of view

• hyperbole

• irony

mistaken idea or belief many people have about a thing or group

• antagonist

• metaphor

• stereotype

• foreshadowing

word that phonetically mimics or resembles sound of what it describes

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work

• alliteration

• theme

• conflict

• flashback

character that is complex and undergoes development

• round character

• flat character

• idiom

• personification