Literary Elements Flashcards
What is an antagonist?
The source of conflict for the main character.
What is a protagonist?
The main character of the story.
What is a character?
A person, animal, or imaginary creature in a literary work.
What is conflict?
Refers to the struggle between two opposing forces.
What is a complication?
Causes a plot to become tense or entangled as a result of the conflict.
What is dialogue?
A conversation between characters.
What is dialect?
The form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group.
What is a flashback?
Interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time.
What is foreshadowing?
The use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.
What is genre?
A division or type of literature.
What is irony?
Literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions.
What is a persona?
The voice through which an author tells a story.
What is a plot?
The sequence of events.
What is a subplot?
A less important series of events within the main plot.
What is point of view?
The perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told.
What is setting?
The place and time in which a literary work takes place.
What is style?
The writer’s typical way of writing.
What is a symbol?
Anything that stands for or represents something abstract (like an idea).
What is a theme?
A central idea, concern, or purpose.
What is tone?
The writer’s attitude toward the readers, characters, and the subject.
What is mood?
Refers to the atmosphere or feeling conveyed by a work.
