Terms
A reference to someone or something, often literary.
What is allusion?
A person or animal that takes part in the action of a text.
What is a character?
What is the setting?
The main character of the story.
What is the protagonist?
Made up of the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
When an author interrupts the story to insert a past event for the purpose of providing background to the current events of the story
What is a flashback?
A character that has one or two traits.
What is a flat character?
The basic element of the plot, the problem.
What is conflict?
The use of one thing to represent another.
What is a symbol?
What the characters say to one another.
What is dialogue?
A type or category of writing.
What is a genre?
A character that has many traits.
What is a round character?
The overall message or big idea of a literary work.
What is the theme?
The point at which the story reaches its emotional peak.
What is the climax?
Giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
A technique in which the author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A character that doesn't change throughout the story.
What is a static character?
The character who opposes someone else in the story.
What is the antagonist?
The beginning of the story (includes characters, setting, and initial conflict).
What is exposition?
A literary term in which what is written is different than what is expected.
What is irony?
Can be 1st person, 3rd person limited, or omniscent.
What is a narrator/speaker?
A character that changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
A type of characterization where the author directly describes a character (appearance or personality).
What is direct characterization?
A form of characterization in which the author uses action or dialogue to portray a character.
What is indirect characterization?
A brief story about an amusing or strange event.
What is an anecdote?