Plot Basics
Plot Basics II
Characterization
Author's Style
Author's Style II
100
Series of related events that make up a story or drama.
What is Plot?
100
Sets up the story with setting, characters & background.
What is Exposition?
100
A character who does not change much in the course of a story.
What is Static Character?
100
Use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot.
What is Foreshadowing?
100
The voice telling the story.
What is Narrator?
200
Central idea of a work of literature.
What is Theme?
200
The outcome of a conflict or problem of a story or play.
What is Resolution?
200
When we have to use our own judgement to decide what a character is like, based on the evidence the writer gives us.
What is Indirect Characterization?
200
To make a blanket statement that does not apply to all people or situations.
What is Generalization?
200
Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
What is Point of View?
300
Struggle/clash between characters or opposing forces.
What is Conflict?
300
Struggle within a character.
What is Internal Conflict?
300
A character with 1-2 traits & can be described in few words.
What is Flat Character?
300
Attitude a character takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience.
What is Tone?
300
A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes.
What is Mood?
400
The time & place of a story or play.
What is Setting?
400
Action/complications that lead to the climax.
What is Rising Action?
400
When the writer tells the read directly what a character is like.
What is Direct Characterization?
400
Time order of events.
What is Chronological Order?
400
Person, place, thing or event that stands for itself & for something beyond itself as well.
What is Symbol?
500
Moment of great emotional intensity/suspense in a plot.
What is Climax?
500
Characters struggle between characters or opposing forces.
What is External Conflict?
500
A person in a story who changes as a result of the story's events.
What is Dynamic Character?
500
Scene that interuupts the present actions of the plot that tells what happened at an earlier time.
What is Flashback?
500
Contrast between expectation & reality; can be dramatic, verbal, or situational.
What is Irony?
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