Literacy Vocabulary

Main character in a story

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Point of View

• Falling Action

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

• Flashback

• Symbolism

• Fiction

• Antagonist

Flashback

• The description that appeals to the senses (light, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• A work of literature where the characters and events are invented by the writer.

• A narrative device that hints at coming events, often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.

• A scene in a movie, novel, etc, set in a time earlier than the main story.

Point of view

• The perspective from which a story is told.

• The emotional high of the story.

• Events after the climax, leading to the resolution.

• The opposing force in a story.

The outcome of the story.

• Tone

• Antagonist

• Resolution

• Mood

Person telling the story

• Narrator

• Mood

• Character

• Tone

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

• Mood

• Tone

• Narrator

• Character

A constant between expectation and reality

• Genre

• Irony

• Plot

• Theme

Character

• Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• A person (or animal(s) in a story's plot.

• Person telling the story.

• A struggle between opposing forces.

Genre

• A major category or type of literature.

• Central idea of a work of literature.

• The emotional high point of a story.

• A constant between expectation and reality.