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