Characters
Point of View
Types of Literature
Plot
Literary Devices
100
Characters that have important roles in the story
What are main characters?
100
The story is told by a character who is identified by words like “I,” “me,” or “my.”
What is the first person narrative?
100
A short work of fiction.
What is a short story?
100
The problem is solved, the conflict is straightened out, the mystery is cleared up.
What is the resolution?
100
The emotional atmosphere produced by an author’s use of language, the way the author makes you feel (frightened, joyful, sad, etc.)
What is mood?
200
Character who tries to prevent the protagonist from reaching a goal or solving a problem
What is antagonist?
200
The story is told by someone who knows everything that is happening.
What is the third person omniscient?
200
Stories that are meant to be acted out or performed, usually on stage.
What are plays?
200
The introduction of the characters, setting, and conflict.
What is the exposition?
200
The author’s attitude toward the characters, plot, and the theme.
What is tone?
300
Characters who are well-developed, complex, and multidimensional.
What are round characters?
300
The story is told by an outside narrator who concentrates on only one character and is not a character in the story.
What is the third person limited?
300
Contains facts and information about real-life people, places, events, and ideas.
What is nonfiction?
300
All the events that build up the conflict and develop the characters.
What is the rising action?
300
Author’s personality, awareness of audience, and passion for his or her subject.
What is voice?
400
Characters who are not well-developed, complex, or multidimensional.
What are flat characters?
400
Acts as an unseen character.
What is a narrator?
400
Characters and situations are unusual, or not very much like real life at all.
What is fantasy or fantastic literature?
400
All the events that lead to the resolution of the action.
What is the falling action?
400
The main idea, moral, lesson, or point the author is trying to make, such as hope, pride, jealousy, greed.
What is theme?
500
Characters that change as a result of what happens to them in the story.
What are dynamic characters?
500
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
500
The characters are like people you might meet in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
500
The part of the story that shows the highest point of the action; a crucial decision is made that helps determine how the story will end.
What is the climax?
500
The author’s distinctive way of writing. This includes word choice, sentence structure, and narrative form.
What is style?
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