Conflict
Literary Devices
Plot Diagram
Definitions
Characterization
100
This is the type of conflict that would occur if two rivals are vying for the same goal.
What is person versus person?
100
Identify the literary device: "My love is like a red, red rose."
What is a simile?
100
In this section of the story, something occurs which changes the main character's normal life.
What is the starting incident?
100
This is the deeper message or meaning of a story.
What is theme?
100
The technical term for the main opponent or villain in the story.
What is the antagonist?
200
This type of conflict would occur when a person is questioning her role and trying to decide whether she will go along with the majority.
What is person versus society?
200
Identify the literary device: "I wish that fool was married to her grave."
What is personification?
200
In this section of the story, the character's life starts to calm down and resume a more normal course.
What is falling action?
200
The literary device at play in this picture. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AZNV9I1nBF4/UB6SvKtIR6I/AAAAAAAAAWY/fk8_oWh9JCI/s1600/midvale+school+for+the+gifted.jpg
What is Irony?
200
The definition of the word characterization.
What is the process of getting to know a character?
300
The type of conflict which occurs when George is turned away by the smoke and heat inside the school in the story "Act of a Hero".
What is person versus nature?
300
Identify the literary device: "Your eyes are a boat, tossed around in the storm of your tears."
What is a metaphor?
300
In this section of the story, we are introduced to the character's personality, situation, and relationships.
What is the introduction?
300
You are watching a scene in a film when suddenly the colors and the scene change and the character looks much younger. This is the name of the literary device you've seen.
What is flashback?
300
To change a judgment from just a first impression into critical analysis, we need this.
What is evidence?
400
This type of conflict occurs in the story "Just Lather, That's All" as the Barber considers the question, 'hero or murderer'?
What is person versus self?
400
The literary device that occurs in the names "Tough Guise" and "Miss Representation"
What is pun?
400
During this section of the story, the character confronts and overcomes obstacles that arise as a result of the starting incident.
What is the rising action?
400
Early in a short film, you see a father put away a gun in his closet without realizing his son is watching. You suspect that the son will find and use the gun later. This literary device has just occurred.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The four ways information about a character's personality can be revealed to us.
What is by what she says or thinks, what she does, what the narrator says about her, and what others say about her?
500
You witness your friend commit a crime. All night, you stay up thinking about whether to turn your friend in to the police or not. This is the type of conflict you are experiencing.
What is person versus self?
500
The literary device in this passage: "I'm thinking of naming my pet store Noah's ark".
What is allusion?
500
In this section of the story, the character faces an ultimate choice from which there is no return.
What is the climax?
500
This device occurs when a word's meaning is defined by the word's sound.
What is onomatopoiea?
500
When the reader experiences a moment of empathy with the character in the story, we say they have done this.
What is "identify with"?
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