Mystery
Short Story
Stories
Words
Figurative Language or something else
100
A person in a story, poem or play
Character
100
Is a brief work of fiction, where, usually, the main character faces a conflict that is worked out in the plot of the story.
Short Story
100
This early horror story is a tale in which the themes of murder, madness and a guilty heart are all played out through the narrators ramblings.
Tell Tale Heart
100
Words used in a sentence to describe or modify the nouns.`
Adjective
100
Involves some imaginative comparison between two unlike things
Figurative Language
200
How the author develops the characters, especially the main character
Characterization
200
A major character who opposes the protagonist
Antagonist
200
On one level it is a tale of a birthday party, and of friendship
The Stolen Party
200
A type of noun used in a sentence to replace a specific name
Pronoun
200
Language that appeals to the senses
Imagery
300
Series of related events that make up a story
The Plot
300
Main character of the story that changes
Protagonist
300
The main character used to see Africa from his home in Newfoundland
Dreams
300
Two words that mean to opposite
Antonym
300
An object, person, or event that functions as itself, but also stands for something more than itself.
Symbol
400
A struggle between two opposing forces
Conflict
400
The time and place of the story's action
Setting
400
This is a memory story, told in flashback
Ambush
400
A word pronounced the same as another, but different in meaning
Homonym
400
Clues the writer puts in the story to give the reader a hint of what is to come
Foreshadowing
500
Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
500
Section that introduces characters, the setting, and conflicts
Exposition
500
Is how life can be interconnected
Catch
500
When words are spelled the same, but have more than one meaning
Homograph
500
The present scene in the story
Flashback
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