Plot Elements
What is the protagonist?
Identify and define this type of figurative language:
The sun smiled down on the city.
What is personification?
What is giving human qualities to non-human things?
What is the most unreliable point of view?
What is first person?
What is this type of conflict: Staci knows that she has a test to study for, but her friend asks her to go to the mall. She knows she should study, but she doesn't want to miss out on hanging with her friends. She can't decide!
What is character vs. self?
This word means without opinion; based on fact
What is objective?
What is the antagonist?
Identify and define this type of figurative language:
The snow was a blanket covering the ground.
What is a metaphor?
What is a comparison of two unlike things stated as fact.
This point of view addresses the reader directly...
What is second person point of view?
A character faces a world problem such as racism or homelessness.
What is character vs. society?
Stated directly...
What is explicit?
The time, place, and social conditions/ environment of a story is called....
What is the setting?
Identify and define this type of figurative language:
I'm so tired I could sleep all weekend.
What is a hyperbole?
What is an extreme exaggeration?
The point of view where the character is a part of the story.
What is first person point of view?
This is the only type of internal conflict:
What is character vs. self?
You must make an inference to understand this; implied
What is implicit?
The part of the story where the tension and suspense builds...
An expression that has a meaning that can only be understood if told, and is used in cultural context. People who are from another region generally have difficulty understanding these. It has a different meaning than its individual words.
The way a character views/sees something...
What is perspective?
Categorize this type of conflict:
A character is trapped on a mountain and there is about to be an a blizzard at night.
What is character vs nature?
This is when an author gives hints or clues as to what may happen later in the story...
What is foreshadowing?
The part of the story where the conflict begins to come to a close; the letdown of the story...
What is the falling action?
Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses; uses sensory language to describe
What is imagery?
The way a narrator tells the story...
What is point of view?
Name the three types of external conflict that we have learned:
What is character vs. character, character vs, nature, and character vs. society.
This word means based on opinions and personal feelings...
What is subjective?