Literary terms 1-33

the writer of a literary work

• author

• character

• flat character

• round character

an account of the writer's own life

• biography

• autobiography

• personal essay

• essay

an account of a person's life written or told by someone else

• personal essay

• formal essay

• autobiography

• biography

person in a story, poem, or play

• flat character

• character

• round character

• author

a character that has many different character traits

• character

• author

• flat character

• round character

a character that has only one or two character traits

• round character

• flat character

• author

• character

language that appeals to the senses

• imagery

• fable

• foil

• diction

conversation between two or more characters

• conflict

• dialect

• dialogue

• motivation

in general, a story that ends happily

• essay

• comedy

• fable

• folk tale

the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

• foil

• conflict

• flashforward

• foreshadowing