Lit. Terms from THE OUTSIDERS
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- Hints about what is coming up in a story
- FORESHADOWING
- Person telling the story
- NARRATOR
- Main character
- PROTAGONIST
- Character or force working against the main character
- ANTAGONIST
- Story that is not true
- FICTION
- Fiction story made up of several chapters
- NOVEL
- Scene that interrupts the present action to describe an event that took place in an earlier time
- FLASHBACK
- The ways an author develops a character
- CHARACTERIZATION
- Relationship between two events in which one event brings about the second.
- CAUSE & EFFECT
- Point of view in which the narrator is IN the story, using words like I, we, me, us, etc.
- FIRST PERSON
- Time and place in which a story takes place
- SETTING
- Perspective from which a story is told
- POINT OF VIEW
- The order events happen IN TIME
- CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
- The feeling the READER gets from reading a story.
- MOOD
- The feeling the AUTHOR has about what he/she is writing.
- TONE
- Reference to a famous person, place, event, or piece of literature.
- ALLUSION
- Lesson to be learned from a story. It is not directly stated.
- THEME
- Piece of literature that is written in lines & grouped in stanzas.
- POETRY
- The use of one thing to represent something else.
- SYMBOLISM
- Point of view in which the author is NOT in the story; key words are he, she, they, it, them, etc.
- THIRD PERSON
- Pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
- RHYME SCHEME
- Character whose personality goes through a major change during the story.
- DYNAMIC CHARACTER
- Character whose personality stays basically the same during the story.
- STATIC CHARACTER
- Comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
- SIMILE
- Comparison of two unlike things without the use of the words "like" or "as"
- METAPHOR