Literary Terminology

A type of writing about real people and events, it is based on facts.

• Biography

• Prose

• Non - Fiction

• POV

Time and place where a story takes place.

• Biography

• Prose

• Setting

• Conflict

Guesses about what will happen based on evidence.

• Prediction

• Characterisation

• POV

• Conflict

The main problem that the character in the story has to face.

• Prediction

• Characterisation

• POV

• Conflict

The way a writer reveals the personality of a character.

• Prediction

• Characterisation

• POV

• Stereotype

The life story of a person, written by another person.

• Theme

• Characterisation

• Biography

• Stereotype

a fixed generalisation about a group made without regard to individual differences.

• Theme

• Characterisation

• Biography

• Stereotype

Written language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

• Theme

• Prose

• Biography

• Non Fiction

The lesson about life revealed in a work of literature.

• Theme

• Prose

• Biography

• Non Fiction

the vantage point from which a story is told.

• Theme

• Prose

• POV

• Non Fiction