Point of View
Point of view in literature
What is the perspective from which the story is told?
The theme in a story
What is the central message or lesson that the author wants you to know?
Conflict in literature is this
What is a struggle between opposing forces that drives the plot?
Main components of a plot diagram
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
A rhyme scheme is this
What is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem?
The three main types of Point of View
What are first, second, and third?
The main character in the story who experiences conflict
What is the protagonist?
The two main types of conflict
What are internal and external?
This happens during the climax of a story
What is there is a turning point where the main conflict reaches its peak? Or what is the main character has to make a decision?
A metaphor is this
What is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as?"
The third-person omniscient point of view differs from third-person limited in this way
What is omniscient reveals all characters' thoughts and limited reveals only one character's thoughts?
The opposite of the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
The four specific types of conflict a character can have
What are:
*character vs. character *character vs. society
*character vs. self
*character vs. nature?
Rising action is this
What is the series of events that lead up to the climax, building tension and suspense?
Alliteration is this
What is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words?
The least commonly used point of view
What is second person?
Mood in a story is this
What is how the piece of writing makes you feel or the atmosphere or emotional feeling it gives you.
How conflict contributes to character development
What is it forces characters to face challenges, revealing their traits and growth?
The resolution of the story is this
What is the conclusion where conflicts are resolved and loose ends are tied up?
Personification is this
What is giving human traits to non-human things or abstract ideas?
The effect of using first-person point of view
What is it allows readers to see events through the narrator’s eyes, creating intimacy?
Setting influences the story in this way
What is it establishes the time and place, affecting the mood and actions of characters?
Give an example of an internal conflict.
What is a character struggling with their own fears or doubts?
Plot structure affects story's pacing in this way
What is it controls how quickly or slowly events unfold, impacting the reader's engagement?
Poets use imagery for this reason.
What is to create vivid pictures in the reader's mind and evoke emotions?