A character who changes within the course of a story; typically a main character.
What is dynamic character?
100
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
100
A conversation reported in a drama or narrative.
What is dialogue?
100
The turning point or high point in the action of the story.
What is climax?
100
The time and place where the action occurs.
What is setting?
200
A character who stays the same within the course of a story; typically a minor character.
What is static character?
200
A conflict which takes place within the mind of a character; i.e., individual vs. self
What is internal conflict?
200
The perspective or vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
200
End of the central conflict.
What is falling action?
200
A person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is characters?
300
Told by a character who uses the first person pronouns I, we, us
What is First person point of view?
300
A conflict in which a character struggles between opposing forces.
What is external conflict?
300
The distinctive qualities of a writer's style, including diction, attitude, sentence style, and ideas.
What is voice?
300
The outcome of a conflict in a plot can either be good or bad.
What is resolution?
300
The sequence of events in a narrative.
What is plot?
400
The narrator uses pronouns such as he and she to refer to the characters. The narrator knows and tells about what each character thinks and feels.
What is third person omniscient?
400
The sequence of events in a narrative.
What is plot?
400
A writer's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
400
The general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions.
What is irony?
400
The central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work and can be expressed as a generalization, or a general statement about human beings or life.
What is theme?
500
The narrator uses pronouns such as he and she to refer to the characters. The narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character, and everything is viewed from this character's perspective.
What is third person limited?
500
Building of conflict
What is rising action?
500
The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
500
A scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past.
What is flashback?
500
The author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.