Literary Terms 7 th Grade Honors Part A Click Mouse to Advance

Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant sounds

A reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art

AnALogy Makes a comparison between two of more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unalike

Anecdote A brief story or short tale about an interesting, amusing, or strange event

Antagonist An antagonist is a character or a force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist

Atmosphere Often called Mood. It is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

Author’s Influences These influences include his or her heritage, culture, and personal beliefs

Author’s Style Author’s typical way of writing

Autobiography The story of the writer’s own life, told by the writer

Biography A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of a another person

Character A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work

Characterization The act of creatinganddevelopingacharacter.

Character traits The qualities, attitudes, and values that a character has or displays---such as dependability, intelligence, selfishness, or stubbornness.

Climax Also called the turning point. It is the high point in the action of the plot

Comedy A literary work, especially a play, which is light, often humorous or satirical, and ends happily.

Concrete Poem Is one with a shape that suggests its subject

Conflict A struggle between opposing forces

Connotations The set of ideas associated associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning

Denotation Its dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have

Description A portrait, in words, of a person, place, or object

Dialect The form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group

Dialogue A conversation between characters

Diction A writer’s or speaker’s word choice

Drama A story written to be performed by actors.

Essay A short nonfiction work about a particular subject