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Meg Kearney
 Literary Terms
We will be covering many literary terms in our Short Story Unit that we will use all year.
Start a list in your notes section that you can continuously add to.

Characterization: the ways individual characters are represented by the narrator or author of
a text. This includes descriptions of the characters physical appearances, personalities, actions,
interactions, dialogue, and

Protagonist: the main character of a story, novel, movie, etc.

Imagery: a term used to describe an authors use of vivid descriptions. Imagery can refer to the
literal landscape or characters described in a narrative or the concepts of the story. Writers pain
pictures with their words.

Simile: a figure of speech that compares one thing with another kind of different thing using
like or as. Used to make a description more vivid.
As you read ...
Highlight imagery that grabs your attention

Put a star next to any similes you find.

Imagery Pictionary
Choose one of the imagistic moments (or
similes) that you highlighted and draw it out on
the back page of the packet.
After you read...
In the Reader Response section of your journal complete
the following tasks:
1. Describe what you know about the protagonist. Use
textual evidence whenever possible.
2. Find two different emotions that the protagonist
experiences. Name the emotion and quote the sentence.
3. Write a personal response to the content of the story.
Have you ever immediately regretted a choice you
made?