Plot Diagram
What we call the beginning of the story, where we learn about the characters, setting and the main problem of the story.
What is the exposition?
Figure of speech that compares two different things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The main character in a literary work
What is a protagonist?
When you give human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
The time and place in which the action of the narrative occurs.
What is setting?
The conclusion to the story, where the solution to the problem of the story is revealed.
What is the Resolution?
Category of literature, like fantasy, mystery, and romance.
What is Genre?
The person or animal that takes part in the action of a story
What is a character?
The time and place a story takes place.
What is setting?
The central idea or underlying meaning (ex help those who need it because you only get one chance at life, growing up is hard, without hope you have nothing)
What is theme?
The highest point in the story, where the problem reaches it's highest peak.
What is the Climax?
A logical guess or conclusion based on limited details and background knowledge.
What is an inference?
Name something that can be a character in a literary work.
What is a _______________________?
makes the reader uncertain or tense about the outcome of events
What is suspense?
What is the protagonist?
The events after the climax, leading to the resolution.
contrast between what is said and what is meant (sarcasm)
What is verbal irony?
How an author describes a character, their appearance, personality, speech and opinions.
What is characterization?
The central idea or underlying meaning (ex help those who need it because you only get one chance at life, growing up is hard, without hope you have nothing)
What is theme?
The introduction in a story that gives us the setting, characters, characterization and main problem of the story.
What is Exposition?
The part of the story that develops the conflict through a series of events that builds interest.
What is the rising action?
A series of events which form a story.
What is plot?
The major character who opposes or conflicts with the protagonist.
The author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
What is forshadowing?
What is the climax?