Literary Terms
Conflict Types
Persuasive Techniques
Application
Plot Map
100
The author’s attitude toward a subject.
Tone
100
Character vs. Self is an example of what type of conflict?
Internal Conflict
100
Appeal to Credibility (trustworthiness)
Ethos
100
“Tree branches glistened like glass” is an example of what?
Simile
100
The start of a story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
Exposition
200
Shows emphasis/importance in literature.
Repetition
200
A superhero vs. a villian is what type of conflict?
External Conflict
200
Appeal to Emotion
Pathos
200
“He covered two of the crouching pheasants with his coat, rounding the back of it over them like a shell.” This sentence contains an example of what?
Simile
200
The ending of the story where all conflict is cleared up.
Resolution
300
A static character is one that...
Does not change throughout the story
300
Conflict that occurs within one's mind.
Internal Conflict
300
Appeal to Logic (data)
Logos
300
What literary terms is an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature—the moral of the story.
Theme
300
The point of highest action in a story.
Climax
400
A physical item in a story that represents a deeper meaning.
Symbolism
400
Character vs. Character
External Conflict
400
Ethos
400
“Some farmers went ice-skating down the gravel roads with clubs to harvest the pheasants that sat helplessly in the roadside ditches.” Which word in this line is meant to evoke emotion in the reader?
Helplessly
400
Events leading to the end of a story
Falling Action
500
Type of characterization that requires readers to infer the character's traits.
Indirect Characterization
500
The boy's hesitation to kill the the pheasants at the end of "What Happened During the Ice Storm" helps readers to draw the conclusion that each boy is most likely having what kind of conflict?
Internal
500
What type of appeal is used here:
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Logos
500
What does ACE stand for?
Assert, Cite, Explain
500
The second part of a plot map
Rising Action