Literary Terms

· Character – A person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work.

· Main Idea - The most important idea expressed in a piece of writing.

· Plot – The series of related events that make up a story.

· Point of View – The vantage point from which the story is told.

· Setting – The time and place of a story, a poem, or a play

· Inference – An inference is an educated guess.

· Theme- A truth about life revealed in a work of literature