Literary Vocabulary Review

A figure of speech that directly compares two things using the words like or as is called...

• rhyme

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

The representation of conversation within a literary work.

• Dialogue

• Epilogue

• Characterization

• Narrative

The use of direct and indirect methods to describe qualities and features of a person within a literary work.

• Antagonist

• Assonance

• Characterization

• Cliché

Topics found throughout the story (usually one word)

• Topic

• Main idea

• Motif

• Theme

a character in the story is telling the story (uses “I”)

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

• Fourth Person

tells the reader what a character is like through their thoughts and actions

• Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization

the main character

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Character

• Hero

hints in the story about what might happen later on

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Hyperbole

• Clues

Time and place in which the story is taking place.

• literature

• plot

• round

• setting

the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.)

• literary text

• theme

• hook

• author's purpose