PLOT
CHARACTER
POINT OF VIEW
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
OTHER TERMS
100
This is the high point, or turning point, in a story.
What is the climax?
100
This is a literary term for the main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
100
This POV is from the point of an outsider and lacks knowledge of emotion or thought.
What is third person limited?
100
This is the literal or dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation
100
This is a person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
200
This part of the story helps the reader to understand the background or situation in which the work is set.
What is the exposition?
200
This is a character who changes over the course of a story.
What is dynamic character?
200
This POV is all knowing.
What is omniscient?
200
This is the attitudes and feelings associated with a word.
What is connotation
200
This is when reality is the opposite of what you expect.
What is irony?
300
This is the portion of a play or story where the problem is solved.
What is resolution?
300
This is a character that stays the same in a story.
What is static character?
300
This POV uses the pronoun "you".
What is second person?
300
This is an expression of a writer’s attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
300
This is central idea or abstract concept that is made concrete in a story.
What is theme?
400
This is the action that occurs after the climax.
What is the falling action?
400
This is a character that is fully developed and has different sides to their personality.
What is a round character?
400
This POV uses the pronoun "I".
What is first person?
400
The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
What is mood?
400
this is when a story starts in the middle of the action
What is "in media res"?
500
This is the events in a story that move the plot forward.
What is the rising action?
500
This is a character who seems one dimensional.
What is a flat character?
500
This is writing that relates an event or a series of events.
What is narration?
500
This is an author's use of language that allows a reader to perceive a human personality in his or her writing.
What is voice?
500
This is the French word for resolution.
What is denouement?
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