Story Time
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Mixed Bag
On the Stage
Research & Writing
100
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
100
The main character of a literary work.
What is the protagonist?
100
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
100
A long speech delivered by a character on stage to another character.
What is a monologue?
100
The sentence at the beginning of paragraph that states the claim of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
200
Literature whose subject matter is real people, places, and events.
What is Nonfiction?
200
The use of hints of what will come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The time and place a story takes place.
What is setting?
200
A conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
200
A one sentence statement that summarizes the point or claim of an essay.
What is a thesis?
300
The methods of developing a character.
What is characterization?
300
The overall atmosphere or feeling of a literary work.
What is the mood?
300
A discrepancy in what happens and what is expected.
What is irony?
300
A long speech delivered by a character alone on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
300
Information taken directly from a source to back up a claim.
What is textual evidence?
400
Person or force that opposes the main character.
What is an antagonist?
400
The angle from which a story is told.
What is point-of-view?
400
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
400
The introduction to the play.
What is the prologue?
400
References to original source material in a piece of analysis or research paper.
What are citations?
500
The emotional high point or turning point in a piece of literature.
What is the climax?
500
The voice from whose perspective the story is told.
What is the narrator?
500
An object that represent something greater than itself.
What is a symbol?
500
A brief speech delivered by a character on stage to the audience.
What is an aside?
500
A list of sources used in a research paper or documented essay.
What is works cited?
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