STAAR 8 READING Literary Terms

speaker or the person who is telling the story

• author's purpose

• narrator

• playwright

• main idea

text that informs, gives instructions, and is nonfiction

• stage directions

• text features

• autobiography

• expository

A literary work that is not real. It is usually made up.

• fiction

• dialogue

• onomatopoeia

• nonfiction

clues that indicate something will happen alter on in the story or future

• flashback

• context clues

• climax

• foreshadow

a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• foreshadow

when and where the story takes place

• plot

• resolution

• setting

• theme

the sequence of events in a story

• conflict

• flashback

• resolution

• plot

the central idea or message of a story

• resolution

• theme

• summary

• main idea

the reason a story is written--to persuade, inform, entertain, or explain.

• author's purpose

• setting

• expository

• point of view

the turning point of the story

• point of view

• stanza

• climax

• resolution