Plot
Plot and Setting
Literary Terms
Poetry Terms
Challenge Questions!
100
The highest point of the curve- the high point of the action.
What is the climax?
100
The very beginning of a story, sometimes during which the backstory is explained.
What is the basic situation?
100
Comparing two items using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
When one thing stands for another.
What is symbolism?
100
The message of the story.
What is the moral?
200
The ending of the story during which any loose ends are addressed.
What is the resolution?
200
It leads up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
200
The main character.
What is the protagonist?
200
Language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the 5 senses.
What is sensory imagery?
300
A character, institution, group or force that is in conflict with the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
300
A clue that prepares the reader for what will happen later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
A comparison using clue words.
What is a simile?
300
A story with both a literal and symbolic meaning.
What is an allegory?
400
A character who changes little in the course of the story.
What is a static/flat character?
400
The action after the climax.
What is the falling action?
400
A story with both a literal and symbolic meaning.
What is an allegory?
400
When one thing stands for another.
What is symbolism?
400
A narrator who is not credible when it comes to telling the story.
What is an unreliable narrator?
500
A central idea.
What is the theme?
500
This is created by the setting, basic situation and other plot elements.
What is the mood/atmosphere?
500
A coming of age story.
What is a Bildungsroman?
500
It assigns human attributes to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, myth, or religion.
What is an allusion?
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