Lit. terms 1-63

the FINAL OUTCOME of the story - or the solution of the problem

• Plot

• Resolution

• Character

• Setting

More generally state TOPIC concerning a passage's MAIN IDEA

• Theme

• Genre

• Main Idea

• Tall Tale

the authors attitude about his topic - can be positive, negative, or neutral

• Tone

• Style/Voice

• Narrator

• Dialogue

a REFERENCE to a WELL-KNOWN WORK of LITERATURE, ART, MUSIC, ETC.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Irony

• Flashback

Gives the MAIN IDEA and IMPORTANT DETAILS of a passage

• Main Idea

• Summary

• Theme

• Drama

A folktale, usually with TALKING ANIMALS, that always has a moral to it

• Drama

• Myth

• Tall Tale

• Fable

A PERSON or other CREATURE in a story

• Plot

• Resolution

• Character

• Setting

A type of literature that tells about REAL-LIFE people, places, events, and things

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

• Drama

• Poetry

the point of GREATEST INTEREST or SUSPENSE in the story

• Climax

• Conflict

• Personification

• Hyperbole

an EXPRESSION that is PERSONAL, JEERING, and INTENDED TO HURT

• Suspense

• Sarcasm

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia