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This is the turning point of a story.
What is climax?
This is anything with personality.
What is a character?
The problem of the story. Without it, there is no story.
What is the conflict?
The time, place, and mood of the story.
What is the setting?
The sequence of events that makes up the story.
What is the plot?
The way a writer looks at the story, typically, whether it is from the outside or from the perspective of a character.
What is point of view?
This is the opponent of the main character in a story.
What is an antagonist?
The art of creating tension in order to keep a reader engaged.
What is suspense?
This is the feeling created for the reader.
What is mood?
What the author of fiction is really trying to say.
What is the theme?
An author might utilize this technique to make a location evoke feelings within the reader, based on a human truth: we care most about other humans.
What is personification?
The author might use this technique to reveal background details outside of the normal flow of the story.
What is a flashback?
This is where the protagonist will get his or her life back.
What is the resolution?
This is a character written to evoke the most sympathy within the reader.
Who is the protagonist?
This is an example of figurative language where two unlike things are compared NOT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This is the correct spelling of the term that means "falling action."
What is D-E-N-O-U-E-M-E-N-T?
This is when clues or hints are given about something that is going to happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
This is a literary technique used to show how to normally unlike things are alike in a limited way.
What is a simile?
Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Robert Galbraith, and many others are an example of this literary phenomenon.
What is a pseudonym (for Samuel Clemens, Charles Dodgson, and JK Rowling, respectively)?
This is an example of figurative language where an object or thing stands for something abstract.
What is a symbol or symbolism?
In order to fully understand an idea, you need to know it in these ways.
What are its connotation and its denotation?
This is the term for attitude toward the story that might be taken by the storyteller.
What is the persona?
In our long list of terms, only two start with a letter that isn't used to start any other terms. Name those two.
What are resolution and theme?
The Honda Odyssey is an example of this literary term.
What is an allusion?
Aesop's fables, Biblical parables, and stories older relatives tell about mistakes they've made are all examples of this literary term.
What is an allegory?