6th Grade Literary Terms Preview

Directions: Fill in the missing words as we review these terms as a class

character

A person or an animal in a story, a play, or another literary

work.

antagonist

Secondary character sometimes in conflict with the

protagonist.

protagonist

main character

plot

The series of related events that make up a story/ what

happens in a story.

climax

The point in a story that creates the greatest suspense or

interest; the highpoint of the action.

setting

The time and place of a story, play or narrative poem.

theme

A main idea in a work of literature; an idea or message/

lesson that the writer wishes to convey on a subject.

first person
narrator

The story is told by one of the characters as he experienced

it--pronoun I is used.

resolution

It is the final part of the story in which the conflict is

resolved and the story is brought to a close.

conflict

A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces

which may be an external conflict or an internal conflict.
External- (man v man, man
v.supernatural, man v. nature, man v.
technology)

flashback

Internal- manv. self

Interruption in the present action of a plot to show events
that happened at an earlier time.

flat
character
round
character
dynamic
character
static
character

A flat character is one that is briefly presented in a story

and the reader learns very little about this character.
The round character is one that is fully developed within
the story through description and action.
The dynamic character changes as a result of a story's
events.
The static character is one that does not change much in
the course of a story's events.