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Literary Terms Vocabulary
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Author’s Purpose
• Reason for writing the story. (to inform, to entertain, to persuade, etc.)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECE0I0AeXXE
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Character
• Character can be defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work.
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Protagonist
• The main character in a story.
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Antagonist
• The character or force in conflict with the protagonist.
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Static Character
• A character who stays the same throughout the story.
• A static character does not change.
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Dynamic Character
• A character who undergoes an important inner change such as a change in beliefs, personality, or attitude.
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Character Traits
• Character traits describe a character on the inside.
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Positive Negative
Honest Deceitful
Generous Defiant
Forgiving Frustrated
Thoughtful Harsh
Trusting Obnoxious
Respectful Opinionated
Playful Impulsive
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Compare and Contrast
• How things are the
alike or different.
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Conflict
• The problem in the story
• A struggle between opposing forces or characters.• Without a conflict a story would be boring
• A story can have several conflicts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg_10OfdEss
Tangled- Conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4JxmGe1iGI
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Internal Conflict
• Takes place inside a character’s mind or heart.
• Sometimes involves a decision.
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Man vs. Self
• A struggle between a character and his feelings, conscience, or fear.
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External Conflict
• This conflict takes place between a character and something outside the character.
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Man vs. Man
• A struggle mental or physical between two characters.
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Man vs. Nature
• A struggle between a character and mother nature (weather, insects, animals, insects)
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Man vs. Society
• A struggle between a character and the laws or beliefs of a group.
• Could include poverty, politics, social norms, expectations, or values.
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Context Clues
• Helps the reader decode
Unfamiliar words.
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Dialogue
• Conversation between characters.
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Cause and Effect
• When one event causes another
To happen.
• The cause is why it happens.
• The effect is what happens.
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Fiction
• Not real, not true, fake
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Non-Fiction
• Real / True
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Point of View
• The standpoint from which a story is told.
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First Person Point of View
• Narrator “I” and “me”
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Third Person Limited
• “They”, “he”, and “she”
• The narrator is an outside
observer that focuses on
the thoughts and feelings of
only ONE character in a story.
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Third Person Omniscient
• The narrator is an outside observer
who can tell us the thoughts and
feelings of ALL of the
characters in a story.
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Flashback
• Interrupting the plot of the story to recreate an incident of earlier time.
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Foreshadowing
• Hints or clues suggesting what may happen later in a story.
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Genre
• A category of literature
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Idiom
• Figurative language; words that mean something other than the words imply
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Imagery
• Figurative language; mental pictures that appeal to your senses
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Main Idea
• What the story or passage is “mostly” about; the author’s message
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Fact
• Can be proven; True
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Opinion
• Something that someone thinks about someone or something.
• Can not be proven.
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Plot
• The chain of events that makes up a story.
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Exposition
• First part of the plot.
• Characters, setting and basic situation are revealed.
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Inciting Incident
• The event that sets the story in motion.
• Makes the rest of the story possible.
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Rising action
• The main part of the story.
• Moves the plot along.
• Where complications arise.
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Climax
• The most exciting or intense part of the story for the protagonist.
• The OMG!
• Usually a turning point.
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Falling Action
• Events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution.
• Conflicts begin moving towards resolution.
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Resolution
• The end of the story.
• Loose ends of the plot are tied up.
• Remaining questions are answered
• Conflicts are resolved.
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Prediction
• Guess as to what will happen in the next story
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Setting
• The time and place of a story.
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Summarizing
• To tell in your own words what has happened in the story.
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Suspense
• The anxiety a reader feels about what may happen next in a story.
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Theme
• Author’s message / moral / lesson of the story
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Symbol
• Object that represents (stands for) an idea
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Visualizing
• Words that paint pictures in one’s mind
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Complications / Conflict
• Problems that arise as characters struggle to reach their goals.
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Story Vocabulary
• Song- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6I24S72Jps&list=RDc6I24S72Jps#t=28
• Goldilocks- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaw-d3r_gIc
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Plot
• The events in the story and it includes conflict, rising action, climax, turning point
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Flat Character
• A character that you do not know well.
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Round Character
• A character that you
know a lot about.
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Sympathetic Character
• A character whose situation you understand, sympathize with, or can relate to.
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Minor Character
• A character mentioned only briefly (less than a flat character).
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Cliffhanger
• An ending to a section, chapter, or book that leaves the reader in suspense.
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Opinion
• Can not be proven; what someone thinks about something
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Character
• Animals or people in the story (main or minor)
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Fantasy
• Make believe; tall tale
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Inference
• Guess; Draw conclusions from knowledge in your head and what the information the author gives us
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Mood
• Feeling created (sad, joyful, scary, etc.)
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Novel
• Long work of fiction that
follows story structure
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Setting
• When and where the story takes place
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Drama
• Literary work performed as a play.
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Short Story
• Piece of fictional writing shorter in length than a novel
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Narrator
• Person who tells the story
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Biography
• The story of someone’s life written by someone else
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Autobiography
• Story of your life written by you.
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Chronological order
• The events in the order they occur in time