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| a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work. |
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| a character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist. |
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| the main character in a literary work |
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| manner in which we express words; the wording used |
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| dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have. |
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| set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning; can be personal, based on individual experiences. |
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| words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses. |
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| feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
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| introduction; introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation. |
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| part of plot that begins as the conflict is introduced; adds complications |
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| point of greatest emotional intensity; the turning point |
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| follows the climax and reveals its results. |
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| concludes the falling action; reveals the outcome of the conflict. |
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| struggle between opposing forces; two types |
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| outside force, such as another character, nature, society, or fate. Man vs. Man Man vs. Nature |
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| a character who is torn between different courses of action; Man vs. Himself |
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| literary device which earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted. |
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| author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later |
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| growing interest and excitement readers experience while reading. |
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| perspective from which a story is told |
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| told by a character who uses the first-person pronoun “I”. |
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| the narrator uses third-person pronouns such as “he” and “she” to refer to the characters |
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| the time and place of the action. |
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| distinctive way an author uses language. |
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| central message, concern, or purpose |
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| reflection of a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work |
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| specific device or kind of figurative language. |
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| type of speech that compares or equates two or more things that have something in common. |
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| figure of speech that compares seemingly unlike things. Uses like or as. |
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| combination of seemingly contradictory words. |
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| an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human qualities or characteristics. |
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| repetition of sounds, most often consonant sounds, at the beginning of words. |
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