Final Exam study

A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.

• Narrator

• Theme

• Imagery

• Fact

• claim

The narrator's position in relation to a story being told

• Setting

• Conflict

• Point of view

• Plot

The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

• Bias

• Active Voice

• Conflict

• Plot

A literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are.

• Irony

• Idiom

• Opinion

• Fact

The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.

• Author's Purpose

• Setting

• Cause or Effect

• Metaphor

The narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view

• Third person omniscient POV

• Third person Limited POV

• First person POV

• Point of view

Where the narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single protagonist, referring to them by name or using a third person pronoun such as they/she/he

• Third person limited POV

• Dramatic irony

• sarcasm

• plot

Which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an omniscient (all-knowing) perspective on the story being told:

• third person omniscient POV

• point of view

• setting

• simile

A figure of speech that describes something to be something else, but uses the words “like” or “as” to do so

• simile

• imagery

• fact

• opinion

The use of literal or figurative language to add symbolism and enable the reader to imagine the world of the piece of literature

• Imagery

• idiom

• main idea

• hyperbole