Types of Stories
What is First Person?
A character narrates the story with I-me-my-mine in his or her speech.
What is Dialogue?
A conversation between two persons.
What is the Setting of a story?
Where and when the Story takes place.
What is an inference?
A logical guess based on evidence or reasoning.
What is personification?
It is giving human traits to non-living things.
What is a Biography?
It is the story of a person's life written by another person.
What is a narrator?
The person telling the story.
What is a conflict in a story?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is a simile?
A sentence that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a hyperbole?
It is an extreme exaggeration.
What is Third Person?
Writer is not in the story but knows and decribes all the character's thoughts and ideas.
What is an Antagonist?
A character or force in conflict with the main character.
What is the theme of a story?
The universal message of a story.
What is figurative language?
It is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.
What is a flashback?
When an author refers back to something that already took place in the story
What is a Narrative?
The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
What is a Protagonist?
The main character in a literary work.
What is tone of a story?
The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story, toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers).
A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as",
What is foreshadowing?
When an author mentions or hints at something that will happen later in the story.
What is an Autobiography?
It is the story of a person's life written by that person.
What is a Character Foil?
A character that has traits that are exactly the opposite of the protagonist's.
What is mood when it comes to a story?
The overall feeling of a story.
What is dramatic irony?
It occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening.
What is a claim?
What the author believes or wants to prove to his or her audience.