What is the person who is telling the story, but not involved in it actually called? For example: The stage manager in Our Town served in this capacity.
What is the narrator?
100
The action of the story or what happens in the story is called what?
What is the plot?
100
The main character of a story is known as this.
What is the protagonist?
100
The words a character speaks in a story is called this.
What is dialogue?
100
Villains, the innocent child, dumb jock, tortured artists. These are all examples of these types of characters.
What is archetypes?
200
Someone who is involved in the story and tells it from their perspective.
What is first person point of view?
200
The turning point of the story, or the highest point of the arc, is called this.
What is the climax?
200
The person who goes against the main character or has conflict with them. Often a villain.
What is an antagonist?
200
The dictionary definition of a word. The literal meaning of the word.
What is denotation?
200
The tool of rhetoric uses logic as it's basis.
What is logos?
300
The perspective the story is told from.
What is point of view?
300
The events leading up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
300
The overall message of the story. The insight into human life we can get from a story.
What is the theme?
300
The feeling associated with a word.
What is connotation?
300
The words a writer chooses; enunciation of words.
What is diction?
400
When someone who is not involved in the story, tells it, but can tell readers the thoughts/ideas of one character.
What is third person limited?
400
The conclusion of the story when the plot ends and the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
400
A character who despite major character flaws, the audience still roots for and serves as the protagonist
What is anti-hero
400
A particular way of speaking that is unique to a class or region. In Huck Finn, this is what made it challenging to read for us.
What is dialect?
400
This tool of rhetoric appeals to a person's emotion or heart.
What is pathos?
500
An all-knowing narration technique is called what.
What is third person omniscient?
500
The beginning of the story when the readers learn important basic background information such as setting, characters, etc. It sets up the rest of the story.
What is the exposition?
500
An element authors use where they emphasize a main character's traits by having another character that has opposite traits.
What is foil?
500
Cliched use of words. A type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
500
This tool of rhetoric appeals to a person's sense of morality.