Literary Terminology 1

Generally provides the time and place of a specific scene or chapter, the entire story, a play or a narrative poem. 

• Setting 
• Conflict 
• Motif 
• Dialect 

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Refers to a person or an animal in a story, play or other literary work. 

• Character 
• Imagery 
• Connotation 
• Simile 

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The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals. 

• Theme 
• Flashback 
• Setting 
• Tone

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A conversation between two or more characters. 

• Dialogue 
• Plot 
• Setting 
• Idiom 

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The attitude a writer/author takes towards his or her subject, characters, and audience. 

• Tone 
• Simile 
• Motif
• Dialogue 

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The way a writer reveals the personality of a character. 

• characterization 
• allusion 
• irony 
• dialect 

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A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces. 

• conflict 
• point of view 
• motif 
• tone 

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A meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word, in addition to its dictionary definition, or denotation. 

• connotation 
• motif 
• characterization 
• alliteration 

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The sequence of events that happen in a story 

• plot
• dialogue 
• setting 
• point of view 

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The use of clues or hints to suggest event that will occur later in the plot 

• foreshadowing 
• idiom 
• motif
• connotation 

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