Reading 6: Trimester 1 Literary Terms

Narrator is outside the story, but can reveal events, thoughts, and actions of many characters, as well as background information

• Omniscient Third Person Point of View

• Omnibus Point of View

• Omnipresent Third Person

• Omnipotent Point of View

Struggle exist within the mind of a character

• External Conflict

• Inferior Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• External Resources

Central struggle between opposing forces in the story

• Combat

• Argument

• Conflict

• Debate

Refers to who is telling a story or who is narrating it

• Point of View

• Opinion

• Review

• Perspective

Character who reveals only one personality trait

• Multidimensional character

• Dynamic character

• Flat character

• Slim character

A semantic transposition, where there is a word or idea that belongs to one context, being used to describe another

• Illustration

• Hyphenate

• Compliment

• Metaphor

A character that works against or annoys the protagonist

• Archetype

• Antihero

• Antagonist

• Arsonist

Stories, dealing with the impact of science, on societies of the past, present or future

• Nonfiction

• Science Fiction

• Scientific Theory

• Autobiography

Shows how the conflict is resolved or the problem is completed at the end of the story

• Result

• Redemption

• Recommendation

• Resolution

And complications to the problem in the story, and increases the readers interest

• Resolute action

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Forethought actiom