High School Literary Terms

The practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects or animals.

• Theme

• Idiom

• Personification

• Mood

When the author gives clues about a future event

• Idiom

• Foreshadowing

• Suspense

• Conflict

The sequence of events and happenings that make up a story

• Conflict

• Suspense

• Personification

• Plot

Time and location the story is taking place.

• Setting

• “The Necklace”

• Idiom

• CER

Problem in the story

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Conflict

• Personification

Central Character

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• The Husband

• Plot

Protagonist vs Antagonist

• Man vs Society

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Self

• Man vs Nature

Man vs Man is an example of

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Setting

• None of the above

Man Vs Self is an example

• internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Plot

• None of the above

The vantage point from which a story is told

• Point of View

• Crisis

• Cliche

• Resolution