Lit Terms 31-60

Arise when characters take steps to resolve the conflict. 

• complications

• idiom

• fable

• literary devices

A long fictional story, usually longer than one hundred book pages.

• complication

• literary device

• persuasion

• novel

The devices a writer uses to develop style and convey meaning. 

• persuasion

• fables

• literary devices

• complications

A novel, story , or play set during a real historical era. 

• historical fiction

• fables

• legend

• idiom

A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true. 

• creation myths

• complications

• figure of speech

• idiom

Stories that explain how the world came to exist or how human beings were created. 

• legend

• creation myths

• figure of speech

• idioms

A story of extraordinary deeds that is headed down from one generation to the next.

• legend

• myth

• idiom

• dramatic irony

The series of related events that make up a story.

• imagery

• narration

• plot

• idiom

A prose account that is made up rather that true, it usually refers to novels and short stories.

• legend

• fiction

• fables

• idiom

Language that appeals to the senses.

• plot

• exaggeration

• idiom

• imagery