Character
Setting
Plot
Conflict
Literary Techniques
100
The word for a main character who is usually the "good guy".
What is a protagonist?
100
This is the MAIN setting for the story "The Most Dangerous Game".
What is Ship Trap Island?
100
This is the most exciting part of a story and all action builds up to it.
What is the CLIMAX?
100
This is the kind of conflict represented by someone hitting or physically hurting another character.
What is Person vs Person?
100
This is the kind of comparison where an author uses "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
A word for judging a character by their appearance and it may be racist or sexist.
What is stereotype?
200
This tells the location of a story, for example, in the city, in the country, in a school....
What is WHERE the story takes place?
200
This is part of the plot graph where we meet characters and find out details about the setting of the story.
What is the introduction?
200
This is the kind of conflict represented by a character who has to overcome an illness, injury, or addiction.
What is Person vs Self?
200
This is the technique used when an author gives hints or clues about what will happen next in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
300
This character is described in great detail both physically and mentally, and is well-developed.
What is a round character?
300
A major thing we need to know for the setting of a story, for example, in the past, in the future, in the spring...
What is WHEN the story happens?
300
This the name for a smaller story that weaves through the main story and has an effect on it.
What is the sub-plot?
300
This is the kind of conflict represented when someone is confronted by aliens, witches, vampires, or ghosts.
What is Person vs Supernatural?
300
This is the technique an author is using when memories or dreams of the past affect the present day story.
What is Flashback?
400
These play small parts in a story and support the main characters.
What are minor characters?
400
This is another word for the mood or feeling created in a story.
What is atmosphere?
400
This is the name for an event that changes the direction of a story and begins the climb up the rising action.
What is the initial incident?
400
This is the kind of conflict represented when a character has to survive an earthquake, tornado, or tidal wave?
What is Person vs Nature (or Environment)?
400
This is the feeling an author creates when she builds up tension and curiosity in the reader.
What is suspense?
500
The name for a character who works against the main character and is often a "bad guy".
What is an antagonist?
500
This novel was set on a farm in the mid-west states about 5 years after the Second World War.
What is "Harris and Me"?
500
This is the term for the main story line or action that takes place in the story.
What is the plot?
500
This is the kind of conflict represented when a character suffers name-calling, and verbal abuse.
What is Person vs Person?
500
This is the literary technique that can be described as a "twist of fate", a coincidence, or "being run over by the wheel of fortune".
What is irony?
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