Literary Terms

to communicate or express thoughts

• convey

• express

• evidence

• signal

known to the reader

• logical

• reveal

• dialogue

• illustrate

a picture drawn or painted

• caption

• prop

• illustration

• signal

stress the importance of something

• evidence
• appeal
• emphasize
• excerpt 

struggle between characters and events

• conflict
• solution
• dialogue
• reveal 

leading or convincing someone to believe a certain idea

• inform
• persuade
• entertain
• narative 

letters that slant to the right and is used to emphasize something

• bold

• underline

• italicize

another word for inference

• examine

• likely

• question

• emphasize

conversation between two or more persons

• props

• dialogue

• visualize

• parenthesis

a passage or quote taken from a passage 

• excerpt
• letter
• entry
• script