Literary Terms
dialect
refers to a form of a language spoken by a group of people
motivation
refers to a need or desire that causes a person to act
flashback
refers to a part of a story that interrupts the forward sequence of events to go back in time to an earlier conversation, scene, or event
inferences
refers to making judgments or drawing conclusions based on what an author has implied
plot
refers to the action or sequence of events
resolution
refers to the conclusion of a story
mood
refers to the feeling a story creates in the reader
setting
refers to the time and place in which the action of a story takes place
climax
refers to the turning point in a story
characterization
refers to the way a writer reveals the personality of a character
characters
refers to what the people or animals in a story are called
irony
refers to when something different than what you expected happens
theme
the message about life a story relays to (gives) the reader
resolution
the part of the story in which the problem or struggle is resolved
conflict
the problem or struggle that starts the action in a story