Types of Characters
Elements of Plot
Poetry
Figurative Language
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The person or force that works against the hero of the story.

What is an antagonist?

100

The beginning of the story that introduces characters, setting, and background.

What is the exposition?

100

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

What is rhythm?

100
Comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

What a piece of writing is mostly about.

What is main idea?

200

The main character in a story; the good guy.

What is the protagonist?

200

The highest point in the action of a story.

What is the climax?

200

Pattern of beats in a line of poetry.

What is meter?
200

Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?
200

Comparison that shows a relationship between two things.

What is an analogy?

300

The character that stays the SAME in the story.

What is a static character?

300

How the story ends; the problems are solved.

What is the resolution?

300

A unit of poetry. A poetic paragraph.

What is a stanza?
300

An extreme exaggeration. 

What is a hyperbole?

300

The extra sense that a word is positive or negative.

What is connotation?

400

The character that CHANGES in the story.

What is a dynamic character?

400

Events leading up to the climax of the story.

What is rising action?

400

Poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme.

What is free verse?

400

An expression that doesn't mean exactly what it says.

What is an idiom?

400

Japanese three line poem following 5-7-5.

What is a haiku?

500
The character that has FEW traits.

What is a flat character?

500

The action and dialogue following the climax that leads the reader to the ending.

What is the falling action?

500

Funny poem.

What is a limerick?
500

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

What is personification?

500

The character that has MANY traits.

What is a round character?

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