Characters
This is the main character of a story, good or bad.
What is the protagonist?
This is the first part of the story, typically responsible for describing where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is a genre meant to make people laugh.
What is comedy?
"I couldn't find it" is an example of this.
What is dialogue?
This is a story that involves elements intended to scare or creep out.
What is horror?
This is the character that opposes the protagonist, good or bad.
What is the antagonist?
This is the part of the story directly after the climax that generally represents a winding-down of the story.
What is the falling action?
This is a genre in which there are made up places, mythical beings, and generally things that you can't find in real life.
What is fantasy?
This is the difference between third person objective and third person omniscient.
Third person objective: you only know what one character is thinking or what they know at a time
Third person omniscient: you know what every character knows and thinks at all times
This is a book about someone's life written by that person themselves.
What is an autobiography?
These are three character traits typical of protagonists.
What is funny, brave, courageous, loyal, strong, intelligent, etc.
This is the part of the story where the main conflict occurs--usually where the protagonist and antagonist clash.
What is the climax?
This is a genre in which there are made up people and events, but no fantastical elements that would keep it from happening in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
This is a story element that better explains a character's motivations or decisions by telling you more about who they are and their past.
What is backstory?
World building is typically required for this genre.
What is fantasy?
This is a character in the story who has a significant storyline and usually has a connection to the main character, but is not a main character.
What is a deuteragonist?
This is the plot element responsible for setting up the story and giving the reader an idea of what it will be about.
What is the exposition?
This is a genre in which there are fantasy elements in the modern world as we know it today.
What is urban fantasy?
This is the punctuation mark that differentiates from dialogue and description.
What are quotation marks?
"You don't know what you're talking about" is an example of this perspective.
What is second person?
This is the term for the progression of a character's personality and actions throughout a story, generally characterized by significant growth of change.
What is character development?
Name all six plot elements in order.
What is setting, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
These are six of the genres that we have gone over in class that have not already been listed on this board.
[Teacher will judge].
This is the person largely responsible for telling a story.
What is the narrator?
[She didn't know what she was going to do, but she had to do something.] This is an example of this point of view.
What is third person omniscient?