Literary Terms Flashcards
Antagonist
a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character.
Connotation
a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which describes explicitly.
Denotation
literal or dictionary meanings of a word.
Flashback
interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative.
Foreshadowing
a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Inference
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Mood
a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
Plot
the events that make up a story or the main part of a story.
Point of View
the mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, essay, etc.
First Person POV
involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “we”.
Second Person POV
employs the pronoun “you”.
Third Person POV
uses pronouns like “he”, “she”, “it”, “they”, or a name.
Protagonist
the central character or leading figure in poetry, narratives, novels, or any other story.
Style
the author’s unique way of writing.
Symbol/Symbolism
an object representing another to give it an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant.
