Unit 1 - Literary terms (#3) 

Where/When a story takes place; it includes time, place, weather, & atmosphere 

Where it takes place 

The time period; the hours, the century, the year 

Climate may be crucial in some stories 

The dominate mood or feeling that pervades the story1

Where a story is set in another time or place and in which the arthor tries to acuratly depict life during that time

When a writer sets a story in a particular geographic area & brings it alive for people that live elsewhere 

Where a writer observers the characters like one observing rats; seeing them as products of envrinoment & heredity1

The aruthor's atttude; created by word choice, details, characters, events, & situations2

the individual traits or characteristics of a piece of writing; the ways a writers uses imagery, tone, syntax, & figurative language2

Choice of words; the words a writer uses 

a person, place, or thing that suggests more than its literal meaning 

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. 

Character's who represent a trait; it can be through name or physical attributes 

A gesture that has a deeper meaning 

Opposite of Literary Fiction; conjures excitment through adventure, suprise, love, & fantasy2

Builds a level of excitement beyond our everyday experiences 

Creates a sense of the everyday world in which we live 

A story where the unexplainable is possible through technology  

A story where the unexplainable is possible due to magic 

(AKA Mystery) The character solves a crime uses intellect, deduction, and inituition 

Attempts to frighten the reader through suspense, shock and fear 

An old term for Genre fiction referring to the cheap paper the magazines in which the stories appeared were printed upon 

write in a a flat, laid back, unemotional tone, & unadorned style2