1. LITERARY TERMS PART 1 Definitions

2. Protagonist The main character; the hero of the story

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

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

5. 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”

6. 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

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

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

9. 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.

10. Setting-when and where a story takes place

11. Conflict- the problem a character needs to overcome

12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Metaphor a comparison of two unlike things

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

21. 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.

22. 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.