Literary Analysis Essential Vocabulary

Time and place in which the story is taking place.

• literature
• plot
• round
• setting

Problem of a story

• Problem
• Conflict
• climax
• solution

A series of events build toward the point of the climax?

• rising action 
• falling action
• climax
• conflict

Static

• the charactor does not change
• the narrator
• complex 
• the character

Dynamic

• the character does not change
• the narrator 
• the character does change
• the character

Series of events that lead to the end of the story from the climax

• Rising action
• Falling action
• Resoulution
• Exposition

Climax

• Solution to the problem
• Turning point of the story
• Description
• Evolutio

language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• figurative language

• word choice

• literary device

• style

the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• hook

• theme

• plot

• literary device

the perspective from which the events in the story are told

• point of view

• word choice

• voice

• plot