Vocabulary_Literary Elements

The author's description and development of a character in a story

• characterization

• narrator

• setting

• plot

When and where the story takes place

• character

• setting

• plot

• theme

The series of events in a story or what happens in a story

• plot

• characters

• setting

• tone

A dominant idea throughout a story - a "universal truth" that the author wants the reader to understand

• theme

• tone

• mood

• plot

The main character in a story

• narrator

• protagonist

• antagonist

• setting

The character who is in conflict with the main character

• protagonist

• antagonist

• plot

• setting

An issue or problem in a story around which the whole story is based

• theme

• mood

• tone

• conflict

The person telling the story

• round character

• flat character

• narrator

• reader

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that occur close to one another

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor