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Literary Terms
ESL Grade 7
Question | Answer |
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plot | a sequence of connected events in a fictional story; has characters and a main problem or conflict |
conflict | a struggle between opposing forces; it causes the action of most stories, novels, and plays |
character | a person or animal that takes part in the action |
setting | the time and place of action |
characterization | the creation and development of a character in a story |
alliteration | the poetic use of two or more words that begin with the same sound |
point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
mood | the feeling that a literary work or passage created |
personification | giving human qualities to animals or things |
theme | the central and dominating idea in a literary work |
genre | a type of literature such as poetrty, prose (fiction and nonfiction) and drama (plays) |
flashback | an interruption in the events in a story to tell about something that happened in the past |