Literary Terms

written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

• prose

• narrator

• protagonist

• setting

a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem

• narrator

• plot

• narrative hook

• resolution

a particular attitude or way of considering a matter; (in fictional writing) the narrator's position in relation to the story being told

• point of view

• internal conflict

• climax

• antagonist

a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of a story

• plot

• exposition

• setting

• protagonist

a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers

• exposition

• narrative hook

• internal conflict

• rising action

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

• protagonist

• antagonist

• narrator

• climax

a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character

• antagonist

• protagonist

• narrator

• point of view

an environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place

• setting

• plot

• narrative hook

• rising action

authors use this important literary technique to keep their readers engaged in the stories; appears at the beginning of the story

• narrative hook

• prose

• exposition

• rising action

psychological conflict arises as soon as a character experiences two opposite emotions or desires; usually virtue or vice, or good and evil inside him

• internal conflict

• external conflict