Literary Vocabulary

Additional meaning associated with the word (emotions, ideas, and other words)

• Antagonist

• Connotation

• Inciting Incident

• Denotation

A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

• Connotation

• Round Character

• Antagonist

• Dynamic Character

A character that changes throughout the course of the narrative

• Flat Character

• Protagonist

• Round Character

• Dynamic Character

A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Inciting Incident

• Climax

The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.

• Falling Action

• Denotation

• Climax

• Fiction

Direct and specific meaning

• Resolution

• Connotation

• Tone

• Denotation

The narrator's position in relation to the story being told

• Mood

• Point-of-view

• Foreshadowing

• Plot

Moments identified by the author that relate to previous events

• Foreshadowing

• Mood

• Point-of-view

• Flashback

A struggle between two opposing forces

• Climax

• Conflict

• Flashback

• Inciting Incident

The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

• Protagonist

• Round Character

• Static Character

• Antagonist