LITERARY TERMS PART 1 Definitions. Protagonist The main character; the hero of the story.

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LITERARY TERMS PART 1 Definitions

Protagonist The main character; the hero of the story

Antagonist Works against the main character; the bad guy in the story

Point of View the perspective or vantage point from which the story is told

First Person Point of View used when the narrator of a story is a character in the story and refers to himself or herself with the first-person pronoun “I”

Third Person Limited Point of View used when the narrator of a story relates the inner thoughts and feelings of one character and everything is viewed from this character’s perspective

Third Person Omniscient Point of View used when the narrator of a story knows and tells what each character feels and thinks

Story Elements- Plot Events that move or carry the story to its conclusion.

Exposition- the part of the plot (story events) that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation/conflict The 3 bears live in a small house in the forest. A little girl named Goldilocks is walking in the forest.

Setting-when and where a story takes place

Conflict- the problem a character needs to overcome

Rising Action-the events that lead up to the climax The bears go for a walk. Goldilocks tastes each bowl and eats all of Baby Bear’s because it is just right.

Climax-the high point or turning point in a literary work The Bear family returns home from their walk.

Falling Action-the events that follow the climax The bears find Goldilocks and everything that she has done.

Resolution-the part of the plot where the story/conflict ends Goldilocks and Baby Bear become friends.

Theme a central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work Dreams do come true. Homelessness. Racial prejudice.

Symbolism anything that stands for or represents something else (may be a person, object, place, or event)

Simile a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison using either like or as

Metaphor a comparison of two unlike things

Personification a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

Idiom An expression whose meaning cannot be understood from knowing the meanings of the words that make it up Example: It’s raining cats and dogs Doesn’t literally mean it raining cats and dogs, its just an expression to show that it was raining really hard.

Allusion A reference in literature to something relatively well- known within a culture. Ex. In “Wonder,” Julian makes a reference to August as Darth Sidious, insinuating that August must like the character because he resembles him.