The time and place in which a story unfolds.

The sequence of events in a story.

The lesson or talking point in a story.

Literature intended to be performed by actors on a stage.

A struggle or problem between a character, opposing characters, forces, or emotions.

A person, animal, or thing telling the story.

A device used to show/present action that occurred before the time of the story.

The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits and personalities (e.g., direct, indirect).

An exaggeration or overstatement (e.g., I had to wait forever.)

A comparison using LIKE or AS (e.g., The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah.).

A comparison of two things WITHOUT using LIKE or AS. (e.g., you are my world.).

Vivid, descriptive language to create sensory impressions.

Describing the sound that something makes (e.g., "BUZZ").

When the opposite happens of what you would expect.

A device in literature where an object represents another idea (e.g., the green light represents Gatsby's desire for Daisy.).

Giving human traits/characteristics to nonhuman things (e.g., Flowers danced about the lawn.)

Conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work.

The turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is most intense and the outcome of the story is decided.

This part of the plot provides necessary background information about the characters, the setting, and the circumstances.

The immediate outcome of the climax.

The ending of the story where all conflicts have been resolved and the story is brought to an end.

The majority of the story where the protagonist is trying to work through the conflict.

Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life, but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author.

True or False: figurative language is language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.

The narrator of the story is also a character in the story.

This point of view presents the events of the story from outside of any single character’s perception.

A device used to hint at future events.

An extended speech spoken by one character. Other cast members ARE ALSO on the stage.

A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by ONE character while ALONE on the stage.

A playwright’s written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move and behave in a play.

The emotions or atmosphere of a work for the reader.

A RECURRING subject, theme, or idea in a literary work (e.g., the green light in Gatsby).

The narrator of a poem is called the:

The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject or the work itself (e.g., serious, humorous).

The main character in a literary piece that faces the conflict of the story.

The character or entity that is actively working AGAINST the main character.

A single line in a poem:

A group of verses is called a:

Two or more words that have the same ending-sounds (e.g., cat and bat).

The pattern of rhyming sounds in a poem (e.g., ABAB).

Consecutive words that begin with the same letter (e.g., Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.).

The equivalent of "chapters" in a play/drama:

True or false: acts in a play are broken-down into various "scenes":

A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text

A character that symbolically embodies well-known meanings and basic human experiences, regardless of when or where he/she lives (e.g., hero, villain, intellectual, dreamer).

A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. For example, The Great Gatsby is one of these for the American Dream.

A literary approach that ridicules humans, politics, and society through humor.

An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event (e.g., chocolate is my Achilles heel.).

 text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery and connotative and concrete words.

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

when a character in a play talks directly to the audience like the other characters in the stage can't hear

The written text of a drama/play

objects used in a scene in a play.