Literary Terms Set 2

Author's purpose is...

• The reason the author has for writing

• The price of a book

What is characterization?

• The setting

• May include things like what a character looks like, what a character acts like, how other characters respond to the character

A major character is...

• A character who has an important role in the story

• A character who does not have an important role in the story

A character who does not have a super important role in the story

• minor character

• major character

The main character in a story

• protagonist

• antagonist

Minor characters are

• Characters who support the main character in the plot

• Super important characters

An antagonist is...

• An ant

• A character who struggles against the protagonist

Narrators....

• the plot

• tell the story

Point of view...

• The perspective from which a story is told

• using a finger to point to something

Dialogue is...

• The words characters speak to one another

• a mystery