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The author’s underlying meaning or message of the story
What is theme?
100
The highest point in the action of the story.
What is climax?
100
A character who changes in attitude or personality.?
What is dynamic character?
100
The main character with a problem.
What is protagonist?
100
“I don’t have much work to do around the house like most girls. My mother does that.”?
What is first person?
200
The beginning of the story when characters, setting, plot are introduced.
What is exposition?
200
When the action of the story increases before the climax.
What is rising action?
200
A character who does NOT change in attitude through the story.
What is static character?
200
The cause of the problem.
What is antagonist?
200
“All Summer in a Day” is a science fiction story. ?
What is genre?
300
The form or type of writing.
What is genre?
300
The contrast between what is expected (or what appears to be) and what actually is – a twist.?
What is irony?
300
The total feeling of a story.?
What is mood?
300
The point after the climax when the loose ends are tied up?.
What is falling action?
300
“Mother and Maya began to walk down the steps; Mother feeling sadness, Maya full of excitement.”
What is 3rd person omniscient?
400
The action of the story.
What is plot?
400
The author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story.?
What is foreshadowing?
400
The reason why a character acts the way he/she does.
What is motivation?
400
The author goes back to an earlier time in the story to help the reader understand something better.?
What is flashback?
400
Matilda loses the necklace.
What is conflict?
500
The author’s way of creating a state of nervous excitement in the reader.
What is suspense?
500
The author’s attitude, toward a subject.
What is tone?
500
The way the author explains the characters in a story.
What is characterization?
500
The relationship between the narrator and the story (who is the voice telling the story?).?
What is point of view?
500
At the end of the story, the knocking stops and Mr. White opens the door on an empty street.
What is resolution?
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