Literary Terms

Character(s)

• The personalities in a story

• The time and place of a story

• The sequence of events that make up a story

• The struggle, or the problem, in the story

A struggle within the character's own mind

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Rising Action

• Character

The character struggles against an outside force

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Theme

• Character

The character(s) who oppose, or go against, the main character, usually causing the protagonist some sort of trouble

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Internal Conflict

• Theme

The main character(s) in a story usually the person the story is about

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Plot

• Ms. Smith

The end of a story where the conflict (problem) is solved

• Characters

• Internal Conflict

• Resolution

• Exposition

Man versus nature is an example of

• External conflict

• Internal conflict

• Plot

• Theme

Reorder the following

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Theme

• Rising Action

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

• comparing two things by using like or as

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.

• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.

• A hurricane! AHHH!

• The hurricane screamed through the town.