Narrative language Vocab Review

The events of a story and how they unfold.

• Foreshadowing

• Plot

• Resolution

• Tone

The solution or outcome of the conflict.

• Foreshadowing

• Plot

• Resolution

• Tone

The way the narrator feels about the events, settings, and characters in the story.

• Foreshadowing

• Plot

• Resolution

• Tone

When the text provides information about what will happen later in the story.

• Foreshadowing

• Plot

• Resolution

• Tone

When the segments of a story get interrupted allowing readers to travel back in time and relive a key moment in a character's life.

• symbolism

• theme

• dialogue

• flashback

The main idea or message of a story. It can be conveyed through title, setting and symbols.

• symbolism

• theme

• dialogue

• flashback

Something that stands for something else. In literature, it can be a person, place or thing that comes to represent an idea or concept.

• symbolism

• theme

• dialogue

• flashback

Words spoken by characters in a story. It is contained in quotation marks, provides information about the speaker as well as the plot.

• symbolism

• theme

• dialogue

• flashback

Words that mean something different from what the words literally (actually) say.

• Figurative language

• setting

• character

• conflict

One of the individuals in a story. They are usually people but can also be animals or even humanized objects.

• Figurative language

• setting

• character

• conflict