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Attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals.
What is personification?
100

The main topic or focus (lesson) that acts as a foundation for the entire literary piece.

What is theme?

100
used to identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story.
What is setting?
100
The decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.
What is the climax of a story?
100
A character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully described by the author.
What is a round character?
200
A character, an object, or an action that means something more than its literal/surface meaning.
What is symbol?
200

The perspective or attitude that the author adopts (and reveals through characters) with regards to a specific character, place, or development.

What is tone?

200
DAILY DOUBLE!!! When a character is at odds with his surroundings or against other characters in the story.
What is external conflict?
200
The events following the climax of story: in a work of fiction or in a drama, the events that follow the climax and lead to the denouement or the resolution.
What is falling action?
200
An easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully described but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.
What is a flat character?
300
When the author uses words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader.
What is imagery?
300
A definitive stance the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work. It refers to the mental and emotional disposition of the author towards the subject, which in turn lends a particular character or atmosphere to the work.
What is mood?
300
When a character is battling his inner self.
What is internal conflict?
300
The final part of a story (such as a book, a play, or a series of events)
What is the resolution or the denouement?
300
A character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude.
What is a dynamic character?
400
Situational, Verbal and Dramatic.
What are the three types of irony?
400
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
400
A part of the plot that is a series of events that build up and create tension and suspense prior to the climax.
What is rising action?
400
The method of character development in which the author simply tells what the character is like
What is direct characterization?
400
A character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
What is a static character?
500
A literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic gist of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect.
What is hyperbole?
500

A way to compare two things. A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.

1. What is metaphor?

500
The main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
What is plot?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, thought, effects on others, actions, or appearance.
What is indirect characterization?
500
1. The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. 2. The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work
1. What is a protagonist? 2. What is an antagonist?
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