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WorksheetsReading 6: Trimester 1 Literary Terms
Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 22mins
Narrator is outside the story, but can reveal events, thoughts, and actions of many characters, as well as background information
Omniscient Third Person Point of View
Omnibus Point of View
Omnipresent Third Person
Omnipotent Point of View
Struggle exist within the mind of a character
External Conflict
Inferior Conflict
Internal Conflict
External Resources
Central struggle between opposing forces in the story
Combat
Argument
Conflict
Debate
Refers to who is telling a story or who is narrating it
Point of View
Opinion
Review
Perspective
Character who reveals only one personality trait
Multidimensional character
Dynamic character
Flat character
Slim character
A semantic transposition, where there is a word or idea that belongs to one context, being used to describe another
Illustration
Hyphenate
Compliment
Metaphor
A character that works against or annoys the protagonist
Archetype
Antihero
Antagonist
Arsonist
Stories, dealing with the impact of science, on societies of the past, present or future
Nonfiction
Science Fiction
Scientific Theory
Autobiography
Shows how the conflict is resolved or the problem is completed at the end of the story
Result
Redemption
Recommendation
Resolution
And complications to the problem in the story, and increases the readers interest
Resolute action
Rising action
Falling action
Forethought actiom
An interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time
Flashback
Forethought
Flash forward
Foreshadow
The method and author uses to help the reader, become acquainted with/get to know a character
Description
Characterization
Narrative
Point of view
The basic structure of a piece of fiction, including expo, conflict, rising, climax, falling,, resolution
Narrative
Storyboard
Playbook
Plot
A variation of language spoken by a particular group, often within a particular region
Dialect
Voice
Accent
View
Exists when what readers expect to happen is the opposite of what happens
Coincidence
Analogy
Irony
Humility
The recurrence of sounds , words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of literature
Remembrance
Repetition
Recurrent
Resolution
Authors use hints about what will happen in the story
Foreground
Forethought
Foreward
Foreshadow
Actors in the story, can be people, animals, robots, etc.
Characters
Plot lines
Vegetation
Monologues
A comparison of unlikely things using the words like or as
Metaphor
Analogy
Contradiction
Simile
A general statement about life that is the main message of the story
Point of view
Theme
Moral
Meaning
Literature, in which situations and characters are invented by the writer
Fiction
Biography
Nonfiction
History
The struggle of a character against an outside force, such as nature, society, fate, or another character
Internal conflict
External setting
External conflict
Internal Affairs
The opinion or attitude, authors express in their writing
Commentary
Dialogue
Description
Voice
The one who tells the story
Author
Liar
Narrator
Reader
A figure of speech in which an animal, object or idea is given human form or characteristics
Personification
Humanitarian
Vegetarian
Agoraphobia
The time and place of a story
Book
Setting
Area
Field
The point of highest interest or suspense in an narrative
Conclusion
Resolution
Climax
Crescendo
When a story uses words, like I or my, the story is told from this… Reader, see, and experience what happens through the narrator
First person point of view
Perspective
Narration
Summary
A reference to a well-known person, place, idea, event, or fact from history, politics, literature, art, music, or culture, which expands the authors use of imagery in a literary work
Illustration
Description
Metaphor
Allusion
The main character
Star
Antagonist
Competitor
Protagonist
Characters who show buried, and sometimes contradictory traits
Round characters
Lead characters
Supporting characters
Flat characters
Language that emphasizes sensory impressions to help the reader of a literary work see, here, feel, smell and taste the scenes described in the work
Description
Illustration
Imagery
Narration
Expression, whose meaning is different from its literal meaning
Simile
Metaphor
Idiom
Allusion
The time and place are gradually revealed with clues throughout the story
Implied setting
Explicit setting
Illustrated setting
Informational setting
The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words or syllables
Allusion
Alliteration
Illustration
Instruction
A literary or artistic category, including pros, poetry, and drama
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Genre
A flat character of a familiar and often repeated type
Simpleton
Flat character
Lead character
Stereotype
Can be read in a single session spanning a few minutes to an hour or two
Novel
Short story
Thesis
Manual
The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story
Mood
Feelings
Tone
Inflection
Includes background information about characters and settings. It sets the scene for the conflict, also known as introduction.
Summary
Climax
Exposition
Introduction
Shows what happens to the characters after the climax
Finale
Falling action
Flat action
Conclusion
The narrator is outside the story, and reveals the thoughts and feelings of only one character that refers to that character as he or she
Limited third person POV
Complete third person point of view
Unlimited POV
Limited first person point of view
Meet up stories set in the real world with believable characters
Science fiction
Anime
Realistic fiction
Nonfiction
