Character
An author's description of a character's personality...
What is characterization?
The author's arrangement of events in a story, play, novel, or narrative poem is known as...
What is the Plot?
The voice in which a story is told...
What is point of view?
Time, place, and cultural background in a story...
What is setting?
The message about life or lesson the reader is supposed to learn from a text
What is theme?
When the author - literally - tells the reader about the character's personality and traits...
What is direct characterization?
The point of view where the narrator is the main character in the story.
What is 1st person point of view?
The way a place or setting makes the reader feel...
What is atmosphere?
Authors add them to stories because ALL humans share common experiences...
What is a universal theme?
When an author provides hints about what a character is like...
What is indirect characterization?
Which point of view does the narrator know all the thoughts and feelings of all characters and is not a character in the story?
What is 3rd person omniscient?
The feeling a reader gets when reading a text...
What is mood?
The way a reader interprets the theme of the story is determined by the reader's...
What is life experiences?
One way readers can analyze indirect characterization is through a process known by this acronym...
What is S.T.E.A.L.?
Story is told by more than one narrator - each with a distinct voice...
Mood is created through the following two things...
What is word choice and sentence structure?
These three elements of fiction determine the theme of a story...
The acronym "STEAL" stands for these words...
What is SPEECH, THOUGHTS, EFFECTS ON OTHERS, ACTIONS, and LOOKS?
The plot diagram is also known as...
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
The character's attitudes or beliefs about an event, person, or place based upon their own personal experiences...
What is perspective
"I was finishing a horror story, so I wrote 'The End.' Then, my keyboard typed 'is coming' completely by itself."
The mood of this piece of writing could be described as...
What is creepy?
A theme is a statement of a life lesson. It is never...
What is one word?