These are the people who appear in the story, the people the story is about.
What are characters?
100
These are two terms for the person who is at the center of the action and who is most affected by the story's outcome.
What are main character and protagonist?
100
This is the problem that the characters must resolve in a story.
What is conflict?
100
This is when an author interrupts the action of a story to recreate a scene from an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
100
This is the person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
200
This is the definition of setting.
What is the time and place of a story's action?
200
These are aspects of a character's personality.
What are character traits?
200
This is the person, place, idea, or physical force that opposes the main character.
What is the antagonist?
200
This is when the author inserts clues early in a story to hint at what is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
200
These are details about sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
What is sensory detail?
300
This is the perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
300
This is the way an author portrays the people in a story.
What is characterization?
300
This is a character's struggle with things outside of him- or herself.
What is external conflict?
300
This is curiosity and tension about how a story will end.
What is suspense?
300
This is when an author makes a character in the story tell the story.
What is 1st person narration?
400
This is the main sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
400
This is when a writer directly tells the reader what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
400
This is a character's struggle within him- or herself, or
with his or her conscience, or between the way things are and the way things should be
What is internal conflict?
400
This is the stage of story plot structure in which the story reaches a critical moment when the main character must come face-to-face with his or her conflict and take a decisive action to resolve the problem once and for all -- all the action in the story leads up to this point, the turning point of the story.
What is the climax of a story?
400
This is the special feeling the author creates in a story (or a part of a story), typically when describing the setting.
What is the mood of a story?
500
This is the central or dominating idea of a story.
What is theme?
500
This is when a writer gives details about the character that suggest to (or show) the reader what a character is like.
What is indirect characterization?
500
These are the 6 types of conflict.
What are person vs. person, nature, self, society, machine, and supernatural?
500
These are the 5 stages of story plot structure (in order).
What are Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution?
500
This is when a writer uses a physical object to represent an idea.