Parts of a Story
This is when the conflict of a story reaches its highest point of drama and tension.
What is the climax of a story?
What is Hyperbole?
When we compare two things without using the words "like" or "as" it is called this.
What is a Metaphor?
This is typically the main character in a story, the good guy.
What is the Protagonist?
This is a plot structure that keeps the story's events in chronological order.
What is Linear?
This is when the conflict of a story ends and remaining issues are neatly dealt with.
What is a story's Resolution?
This is the name of repetition of sounds throughout multiple words or lines.
What is alliteration?
This is what its called when we compare two things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a Simile?
This is typically the main villain of the story; the bad guy.
What is the Antagonist?
A plot structure which tells the story out of order is called this.
What is Nonlinear?
When a conflict starts with an inciting incident and begins to intensify, we call it this.
What is the Rising Action?
What is an Allusion?
This is what it's called when we give human qualities to something that is not a human.
What is Personification?
This type of character highlights the traits of another character--usually the protagonist--by being very different from them.
What is a Foil character?
These are the three types of perspective which we can see throughout literature.
What are First, Second, and Third Person Point-of-View?
This is found in the beginning of a story, where characters, setting, and basic situations are introduced.
What is Exposition?
What is Irony?
This is a figure of speech which cannot be understood literally: "Raining cats and dogs"
What is an Idiom?
This is a struggle that the main character faces from an outside force.
What is external conflict?
This is what Mrs. Bryant means when she says "text".
What is any piece of literature, art, or media that we are analyzing?
This is when a story's tension begins to lessen and calm down.
What is the Falling Action?
This is a story, poem, or other piece of art that uses characters and symbols to teach a deeper meaning.
What is an Allegory?
This is the way that an author wants their audience to feel. This is influenced by the setting and word choice an author uses.
What is Mood?
This is a struggle that the main character faces in their mind.
What is internal conflict?
This is what we must do when making direct references to someone else's work, even if we're just paraphrasing. Doing this helps to make sure we're not plagiarizing someone else's ideas.
What is citing evidence?