Literary Terms Definitions

The websites below should offer you some assistance in discovering the definitions for the following words:

  1. Character motivation-

www.justaboutwrite.com/writing/6599.php

2. Plot Elements-

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/shakespeare/Literary.Terms.html

3. Non-verbal feedback

http://www.opi-inc.com/feedback.htm

4. Non-verbal language

www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/languages/nonverbal.htm

5. Target Audience

http://www.bookjobs.com/page.php?prmID=9

(Scroll to near the bottom of the page.)

6. Recurring Themes

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-hw/bl-theme.htm

7. Narration

http://www.pearsoned.ca/text/flachmann4/gloss_iframe.html

http://henry.mpls.k12.mn.us/1Sep20053.html

8. Omniscient

http://www.learner.org/interactives/literature/read/pov2.html

9.   Shift

http://henry.mpls.k12.mn.us/1Sep20053.html

10. Descriptive Writing Cohesion

http://www.jacweb.org/Archived_volumes/Text_articles/V11_I1_Horning.htm