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25 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Hints about what is coming up in a story
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FORESHADOWING
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Person telling the story
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NARRATOR
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Main character
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PROTAGONIST
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Character or force working against the main character
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ANTAGONIST
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Story that is not true
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FICTION
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Fiction story made up of several chapters
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NOVEL
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Scene that interrupts the present action to describe an event that took place in an earlier time
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FLASHBACK
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The ways an author develops a character
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CHARACTERIZATION
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Relationship between two events in which one event brings about the second.
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CAUSE & EFFECT
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Point of view in which the narrator is IN the story, using words like I, we, me, us, etc.
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FIRST PERSON
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Time and place in which a story takes place
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SETTING
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Perspective from which a story is told
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POINT OF VIEW
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The order events happen IN TIME
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CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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The feeling the READER gets from reading a story.
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MOOD
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The feeling the AUTHOR has about what he/she is writing.
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TONE
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Reference to a famous person, place, event, or piece of literature.
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ALLUSION
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Lesson to be learned from a story. It is not directly stated.
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THEME
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Piece of literature that is written in lines & grouped in stanzas.
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POETRY
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The use of one thing to represent something else.
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SYMBOLISM
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Point of view in which the author is NOT in the story; key words are he, she, they, it, them, etc.
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THIRD PERSON
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Pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
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RHYME SCHEME
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Character whose personality goes through a major change during the story.
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DYNAMIC CHARACTER
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Character whose personality stays basically the same during the story.
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STATIC CHARACTER
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Comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
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SIMILE
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Comparison of two unlike things without the use of the words "like" or "as"
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METAPHOR
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