Plot
Writing Terms
Character Types
Imagery Words
Types of Works
100
The events leading up to the climax
What is rising action?
100
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
The character who works against the protagonist.
What is antagonist?
100
Relating to the sense of smell
What is olfactory?
100
Anything that isn't poetry.
What is prose?
200
The end of the story where all the loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
200
Reference to something outside of the work, such as a historical event.
What is allusion?
200
Main character of a work.
What is the protagonist?
200
Relating to seeing or sight
What is visual?
200
Biography about oneself written by oneself.
What is autobiography?
300
The turning point
What is climax?
300
Figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness.
What is euphemism?
300
A minor character who does not go through a substantial change. 2-Dimensional
What is a flat character?
300
Relating to touch
What is tactile?
300
Short composition on a particular theme/topic
What is essay?
400
The events after the climax, leading to the resolution.
What is falling action?
400
Repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
400
A major character that encounters a conflict and is changed by it.
What is dynamic character?
400
Relating to hearing
What is auditory?
400
Long narrative poem in formal elevated style that chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation.
What is an epic?
500
A minor plot that somehow relates to the story.
What is subplot?
500
Word, phrase, or clause, that a pronoun refers to.
What is antecedent?
500
A character who doesn't undergo substantial change.
What is static character?
500
Relating to the sense of taste.
What is gustatory?
500
A story in which people, things, and events represent abstractions
What is allegory?
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