Literature Keystone

The author's method for structuring a text (Ex., cause-effect, flashbacks, and foreshadowing)

• Sequence of Steps

• Allegory

• Dramatic Script

• Text Organization/Structure

The overall structure or shape of a work that frequently follows an established design.

• Sequence of Steps

• Allegory

• Literary Form

• Text Organization/Structure

Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact.

• Drama

• Dramatic Script

• Fiction

• Informational Text

A form of literature where objects, people, actions, or events in the story have a deeper meaning and stand for something else.

• Drama

• Allegory

• Fiction

• Informational Text

The written text of a play which includes the dialogue between characters, stage direction, and often other expository information.

• Drama

• Dramatic Script

• Fiction

• Informational Text

A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy.

• Allegory

• Personification

• Bias

• Fable

An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event. (a)  

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Author's Purpose

A person, animal or inanimate object portrayed in a literary work. (a)  

• Character

• Setting

• Theme

• Plot

The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits and personalities (e.g., direct, indirect).

• Characterization

• Plot

• Conflict

• Cultural Significance

The turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is at its most intense.

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Inciting Incident

• Exposition