Week 1 Terms
The time and place or when and where of a story
What is the setting?
The end of the story
What the author intends the reader to feel while reading
What is mood?
When an author obliquely (indirectly or without saying any names or specifics) refers to an event or person that is so ubiquitous (well-known to most people) that everyone will likely know the reference
What is allusion?
When an author uses an object, color, or word to represent an abstract idea
What is symbolism?
Characters who feel one-dimensional and show typically only one strong personality trait/emotion (like anger or joy).
What are flat characters?
When artificial intelligence takes over the world and threatens to exterminate humanity
What is external conflict, person vs. machine/technology/science
When an authors hints now about an event that will happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
When the author expects the reader to put clues or hints together to determine something about the story
What is an inference?
An example is when a character is discovered with a gun in his hand and is standing over a dead body.
What is an inference?
Characters who are seeking to accomplish something or reach a goal, often the main characters
Who are the protagonists?
The part of the story where the plot becomes more complicated and obstacles stand in the way of the protagonist's objective/goal
What is the rising action?
When a character says something that is the opposite of what the reader expects and what the character means
What is verbal irony?
P.I.E. or persuade, inform, and entertain
What is the author's purpose?
An example is the mockingjay pin and image in The Hunger Games trilogy
What is symbolism?
An idea that is repeated throughout a work of fiction, a recurring idea
What is the theme?
The only type of Internal Conflict?
What is person vs. self?
The author's attitude toward the subject
When an author compares two unlike things over a series of lines, paragraphs, pages, or even chapters.
What is an extended metaphor?
An example is a road atlas, an instruction manual, or cookbook
What is an author's purpose to inform?
The categories for a character that starts off angry and disappointed because he doesn't make the basketball team but by the end is proud of his hard work and thankful to his teammates for helping him out
What is a dynamic and round character?
When John wants to go to college but is afraid he will fail
What is internal conflict or person vs. self?
What the author uses to tell the story: can be in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 3rd omniscient?
What is point of view?
When an author uses characters to represent real people and real events, typically to criticize a historical or biblical event
What is an allegory?
What is symbolism?