Literature Terms

Conflict

• A struggle between opposing forces

• the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.

• Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• The time and place of a story

Exposition

• the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.

• Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• Placement of two things closely together in order to compare or contrast

• A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

Rising Action

• the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.

• Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• Placement of two things closely together in order to compare or contrast

• A struggle between opposing forces

Falling Action

• the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.

• The time and place of a story

• Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• Sequence of events in a story

Juxtaposition

• Anything that stands for or represents something else

• Placement of two things closely together in order to compare or contrast

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

The main idea of a literary work - the idea the author wants to convey

• conflict

• genre

• mood

• theme

The most suspenseful moment of the story

• conflict

• climax

• protagonist

• genre

Introduces the characters and setting of the story

• genre

• resolution

• exposition

• theme

How the main conflict is resolved

• resolution

• ending

• rising action

• alliteration

The main problem

• action

• events

• suspense

• conflict