Literary Terms Review

The turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension

• Point of View

• Climax

• External Conflict

• Theme

the narrator's position in relation to a story being told

• Point of view

• climax

• Plot

• Irony

a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly

• Setting

• foreshadowing

• Theme

• characterization

central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Setting

• Conflict

a character, or a group of characters, which stands in opposition to the protagonist, which is the main character.

• Point of View

• Conflict

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story

• External Conflict

• Point of View

• Setting

• Plot

struggle that takes place between the main character and some outside force.

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

when a character struggles with something within themselves.

• Internal Conflict

• External conflict

the time and place in which the story takes place.

• Setting

• Plot

• Characterization

• Theme

literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story

• Setting

• Plot

• Foreshadowing

• Conflict