Key Terms for Literary Texts 1

The THEME of a work is 

• the main character

• the title

• an idea present in the work

• the level of diction

The turning point of a story where the protagonist often makes a change.

• rising action

• climax

• exposition

• inciting event

The contrast between what the character knows and the reader/audience knows...

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• none of the above

When objects or abstract ideas are given human characteristics.

• personification

• pun

• metaphor

• oxymoron

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis in poems and stories.

• humor

• cliche

• metaphor

• hyperbole

What is theme?

• The author's main point in a paragraph.

• The lesson or moral of the story (narrative).

• The authors main point of the entire text.

• A one word subject such as love, bravery, or rebellion.

The teller of a story is a character in the story.

• 3rd person

• 3rd person limited

• first person pov

• omniscient pov

A word's emotional meaning (positive or negative) is called its ___.

• resolution
• inference
• denotation
• connotation

A character that has very few traits is called a/an ___.

• dynamic character
• static character
• flat character
• round character

The use of words that imitate the sounds of what they describe.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• nonverbal

• splat!