Figures of Speech
An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
I hated camping, and now there were a billion mosquitoes in our tent.
What is Hyperbole?
The Sequence of events in a story.
What is Plot?
A person, animal, or "thing" in literature.
What is Character?
A struggle AGAINST another character, idea, or organization.
What is External Conflict?
Words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
The shaken soda fizzed out of the bottle.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The beginning of the story where the setting, characters, and conflict are introduced.
What is Exposition?
The character or force working against the protagonist.
What is Antagonist?
An internal/emotional struggle between what the character wants to do and should do.
What is Internal Conflict?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.
The ancient car wheezed its last breath and refused to move another inch.
What is Personification?
The event that sets the story in motion.
What is Inciting Incident?
The main character.
What is Protagonist?
The protagonist has a problem with another character.
What is Person vs Person?
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
While walking the dog, I stopped to shoot the breeze with our neighbor.
What is Idiom?
The series of events, involving the characters, where the conflict intensifies leading toward the climax of the story.
What is Rising Action?
A character mentioned only briefly.
What is Minor Character?
What is Person vs Nature?
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
Kerri cooked cupcakes in her sister's kitchen.
What is Alliteration?
The "Turning Point" in the story; the conflict is the most intense, either internally or in action.
What is Climax?
A character whose situation is one that you can relate to.
What is Sympathetic Character?
The protagonist struggles with an internal problem such as fear, shyness, morals, or guilt.
What is Person vs Self?
A comparison of two, unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing.
Max is a starving hyena, devouring everything in sight.
What is Metaphor?
The events in a story where a decision is made and the protagonist is working towards a resolution.
What is Falling Action?
A character that goes through a significant change from the beginning to the end of the story.
What is Dynamic Character?
The protagonist faces a problem with machines.
What is Person vs Technology?
A reference to a person, place or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts.
My uncle Norman is such a Scrooge, he wouldn't even leave a tip for the waitress.
What is Allusion?
Either inferred or directly stated; the time and place that a story is set in.
What is Setting?
A character that changes very little from the beginning to the end of the story.
What is Static Character?
The protagonist faces a problem with society.
What is Person vs Society?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
She wilted like a thirsty flower when the teacher corrected her grammar in front of the class.
What is Simile?
The conflict is resolved, loose ends are tied up, questions are answered, and the story ends.
What is Resolution?
A character that is fulling developed with both positive and negative character traits.
What is a Round Character?
The protagonist struggles with a force that seems beyond his/her control.
What is Person vs Supernatural?
The attitude a writer takes towards the subject or the reader.
What is Tone?
The message about life or human nature; this is implied but must be written as a statement
What is Theme?
A character that is stereotypical and one-dimensional; a simple character with limited personality traits.
What is Flat Character?
The perspective or viewpoint of a story.
What is Point of View?
A struggle, obstacle, or controversy between opposing forces.
What is Conflict?
The overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature, heavily influenced by the setting and is reader-centered.
What is Mood?
The process of creating a character using words, thoughts, actions, appearance, and perception.
What is Characterization?
The narrator is a character typically the main character.
What is First-Person POV?