Literary Terms
Story Curve
Literary Terms
Vocabulary
Literary Terms
100
Comparing two items, not using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
The highest point of the curve- the high point of the action.
What is the climax?
100
Comparing two items using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Inflammation of the brain.
What is encephalitis?
100
When one thing stands for another.
What is symbolism?
200
A character who changes little in the course of the story.
What is a static character?
200
The ending of the story during which any loose ends are addressed.
What is the denouement?
200
The main character.
What is a protagonist?
200
Inflammation of veins.
What is phlebitis?
200
A narrator who is not credible when it comes to telling the story.
What is an unreliable narrator?
300
A character, institution, group or force that is in conflict with the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
300
The very beginning of a story, sometimes during which the backstory is explained.
What is the prologue?
300
It assigns human attributes to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
300
Inflammation of the liver.
What is hepatitis?
300
A story with both a literal and symbolic meaning.
What is an allegory?
400
The opposite of what is expected. A reality different from appearance.
What is irony?
400
It leads up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
400
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, myth, or religion.
What is an allusion?
400
Inflammation of the bladder.
What is cystitis?
400
A clue that prepares the reader for what will happen later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
Language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the 5 senses.
What are sensory images?
500
The action after the climax.
What is the falling action?
500
A coming of age story.
What is a Bildungsroman?
500
Inflammation of the kidneys.
What is nephritis?
500
A central idea.
What is the theme?
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