Key Literary Vocab Review

when an author uses clues or hints at something that will happen in the future

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• conflict

• context clues

making conclusions about something that is shown but not explicitly stated in the text

must always be supported by text evidence

• inferencing

• foreshadowing

• thesis

• characterizations

the events of the story and how they unfold

• plot

• setting

• characterization

• inference

everything the reader knows about the character based on evidence in the text

• characterization

• foreshadowing

• setting

• conflict

a figurative language device that compares something to another thing usually by saying something is another thing

EXAMPLE: Your eyes are radiant diamonds

• metaphor

• personification

• theme

• conflit

the emotions and feelings created by an author's choice of word, imagery, and figurative language

• mood

• conflict

• theme

• stanza

the narrator or voice of a poem

• speaker

• characterization

• mood

• author

parts of the text that help you to better understand what a word or phrase means

• context clues

• definition

• summary

• thesis

a statement of the main information, ideas, or argument of a nonfiction text typically found in the introduction and conclusion of the text

• thesis

• detail

• summary

• conclusion

how an author puts their information and ideas in order in a nonfiction text

• organizational pattern

• context clues

• summary

• author's purpose