A minor character in a story whose personality does not change.
What is a flat character?
100
- the introduction of the characters, setting, and basic situation
What is Exposition?
100
Usually in the introduction that helps catch the reader's attention. Can consist of dialogue, a thought-provoking question or quote, general fact, simile, metaphor, turnabout?
What is a hook?
100
a group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
Directions given to the actors on how they need act on stage. They are usually placed in parentheses and/or in italics.
What is Stage Directions?
200
Major Characters in the story that experience a change that enables them to see, think, feel differently.
What is Dynamic Character?
200
- the story’s central problem
What is Conflict?
200
What all paragraphs, ideas, and examples have to support in an essay?
What is a thesis statement?
200
What figurative language device is being used?
You are the fungus beneath my toes.
You are the virus that kills thousands.
You are the hangnail that infuriates me.
What is a metaphor?
200
long speech by one single character to other characters.
What is Monologue?
300
A character who contrasts another character. Usually consists of the Protagonist against the Antagonist.
What is character foil?
300
events that increase tension about the conflict
What is Rising Action?
300
How many ideas should you brainstorm when writing an essay? How many are you supposed to choose for your thesis?
What is 6 and 2?
300
the pattern of rhyme in a poem (to find the rhyme scheme mark each of the end rhyme using letters starting with “a”) (ex. aabba)
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Costumes, make up, and various objects that create the atmosphere (make it look believable) in a play?
What is props?
400
A character who is struggling against an outside force, such as another character, nature, or society.
What is external conflict?
400
- point of greatest tension in the story
What is Climax?
400
The recommended number of:
- details to include in your expository essay
What is 2-3?
400
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a couplet?
400
A play meant to be performed on stage for an audience.
What is Drama?
500
Where and when the story takes place (time day, time of year, what year, weather, physical location, etc.)
What is setting?
500
the final outcome of the story
What is Resolution/denouement?
500
What are words or phrases that can be used connect ideas to part of your essay?
What is transition words/phrases?
500
the person that narrates the poem
What is the speaker/narrator?
500
A ______involves the ruin of the leading characters (something depressing or disastrous happens). As opposed to a ______which is lighter drama which is amusing and ends well.