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| A sequence of events, the main events of a story |
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| The time and place a story occurs |
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| A literary work's central message, concern, or purpose - the moral to the story |
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| When an author describes a character and the character traits (could be physical, personality, tendencies, habits, etc.) |
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| A division or type of literature. |
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| The author's attitude toward the events taking place in the book. |
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Perspective from which a story is told
1st person - told from character's perspective using "I"
2nd person - story is told from one character to another using "you"
3rd person - told from narrator's perspective using "he" or "she" |
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| The problem a character faces in a story |
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| An introductory part to a play, poem, or novel |
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| a concluding part added to a literary work such as a novel that usually gives information about the future of a story |
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| Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
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| A play on words, using a word in a humorous way instead of using the actual meaning |
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| An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work |
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| A simile or metaphor that is complex and causes the reader to have to think about the connection. |
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| Occurs when the reader or audience knows something that a character does not |
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| The use of words to express the exact opposite of the literal meaning of what is being said |
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| a "sub-language", a way of speaking, or a phrase in which words do not have their usual meanings |
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