Literary Terms

The moral or message readers should learn from the story  (Does the character learn something or change?  How is conflict resolved?)

• Climax
• Key Detail
• Conflict
• Theme

main character who carries the action forward; in almost every scene (hero)

• 1st person point of view
• antagonist
• protagonist
• 3rd person point of view

How the text makes the reader feel (Ex. Peaceful, eerie, humorous, sad)

• description
• mood
• analysis
• tone

People, animals, or creatures in a story or drama

• narrator
• personification
• characters
• exposition

Uses "I" and is usually the main character in the story

• 1st person point of view
• 2nd person point of view
• 3rd person point of view
• biography

Comparison of unlike things that uses "like" "as" or "than" (Ex. This room is like an oven.)

• idiom
• metaphor
• personification
• simile

Extreme exaggeration (Ex. My backpack weighs a ton.)

• hyperbole

• imagery

• simile

• personification

Answer explanation

Text that comes from the story used to support your analysis

• denotative meaning
• connotative meaning
• text evidence
• summary

character or force who opposes the protagonist (villain)

• indirect characterization

• direct characterization

• antagonist

• protagonist

Answer explanation

the narrator or a character in the story tells us exactly what we need to know about a character

• anecdote
• direct characterization
• indirect characterization
• inference