A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the storys action.
What is Dynamic Character
100
The series of related events that make up a story or drama.
What is Plot
100
The turning point for the protagonist; when the protagonist takes action and makes a decision to try to solve the central conflict.
What is Climax
100
The time and place of events in a literary work.
What is Setting
200
The character of force that blocks the protagonist
What is Antagonist
200
A character who seems like a real person. Character has more dimensions to personality. Complex and multi-faceted.
What is Round Character
200
background information on characters and events necessary for understanding the story. The basics are exposed.
What is Exposition
200
The actions that work out the decisions of the climax.
What is Falling Action
200
The feeling the reader gets when reading the story.
What is Mood
300
Character who does not change or refuses to grow much in the course of the story
What is Static Character
300
A character who is not well developed, doesn't seem real with only one or two personality traits. One-Dimensional
What is Flat Character
300
The series of conflicts and struggles that build the story towards a climax; tension builds.
What is Rising Action
300
All the problems or mysteries of the plot are unraveled
What is Resolution
300
A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character.
What is Internal Conflict
400
Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story.
The use of clues to hint what is going to happen later in the plot.
What is Suspense and Foreshadowing.
400
A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Word Choice.
What is Symbol and Dictation.
400
A contrast between expectation and reality.
Reader knows something important that character doesn't know.
What is Irony and Dramatic Irony.
400
What actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate.
When a speaker says one thing but means the opposite.
What is Situational Irony and Verbal Irony.
400
Language that is not meant to be interpreted literally; Simile, Metaphor, etc.
The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.
What is Figurative Language and Denouement.
500
A characters struggle against some outside force; another character society as a whole or some natural force.
A struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions. KEYWORD: Vs.
What is External Conflict and Conflict.
500
The central idea or insight of a work of literature; most are implied rather than directly stated.
Attitude a writer takes toward the reading, a subject, or a character; conveyed through the writers choice of words and details.
What is Theme and Tone.
500
The vantage point from which a writer tells the story.
Uses 'I' ; narrator is in the story.
What is Point of View and 1st Person.
500
Narrator is all knowing.
View is limited to one character. From outside the story.
What is 3rd person omniscient and 3rd person limited
500
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
The teller of the story.