Plot Line
Figures of Speech
Miscellaneous
About Characters
Miscellaneous 2
100
the most exciting, emotional, and suspenseful moment in the story
What is climax
100
a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as "like" or "as"
What is a simile
100
the series of events that make up a story
What is plot
100
a character who changes as a result of the story's events
What is a dynamic character
100
the main idea about life revealed in a work of literature
What is theme
200
the part of the plot that tells the reader who the characters are and what their conflict is
What is exposition/introduction
200
a comparison in which one thing is said to be another
What is a metaphor
200
language that appeals to the senses
What is imagery
200
a character who does not change much in the course of the story
What is a static character
200
the time and place of a story
What is setting
300
the last part of the plot in which the characters' problems are solved and the story ends
What is resolution
300
a comparison of two things which are alike in certain ways (MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken)
What is an analogy
300
an exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300
the process of revealing the personality of a character in a story
What is characterization
300
the vantage point from which a story is told
What is point of view
400
the first half of the plot before the climax and including the conflict
What is rising action
400
a figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing/quality is talked about as if it were human
What is personification
400
the difference between what's expected to happen and what actually does (a firehouse burning down)
What is irony
400
type of point of view where the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character
What is third person limited point of view
400
type of point of view where the narrator uses the pronoun "I"
What is first person point of view
500
the second half of the plot after the climax
What is falling action
500
a use of words peculiar to a specific language which cannot be taken literally ("Spill the beans")
What is an idiom
500
a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true
What is a figure of speech
500
name all the elements of plot line
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
500
type of point of view where the narrator is all-knowing
What is omniscient point of view
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