Type Of Character
Points In The Story
Narrative Structure
Vocab
Vocab
100
The main character involved in the central conflict.
What is Protagonist
100
The feeling or atmosphere a reader senses while reading a piece of literature.
What is Mood
100
An all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story and who can report the thoughts and feelings of the characters, as well as their words and actions. (See also limited omniscience and neutral omniscience.)
What is Omniscient narrator?
100
Obvious exaggeration used for serious, comic, or ironic effect.
Hyperbole
100
A condensed form of paradox in which two seemingly contradictory terms are joined together: jumbo shrimp, wise fool, bittersweet.
What is Oxymoron?
200
The force or person who works against the main character's attempt.
What is Antagonist
200
The highest point of tension in the plot.
What is Climax
200
The voice used by an author to tell a story or speak a poem. The speaker is often a created identity, and should not automatically be equated with the author’s self.
What is Speaker?
200
A speaker or author’s word choice used for effect; includes connotation of words as well as denotation. (concrete vs. abstract; formal vs. informal or colloquial)
What is Diction
200
A statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense. For example, "Death, thou shalt die."
What is Paradox?
300
A character whose traits are in direct contrast to those of the principal character. The foil typically highlights the traits of the protagonist. The foil is usually a minor character, although if there are two protagonists, they may be foils of each other.
What is Foil
300
Occurs at the beginning of a work of fiction; established background information or lays out the scene.
What is Exposition?
300
A central meaning in the work which provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. It is important not to mistake the theme for the actual subject of the work; the theme refers to the abstract concept that is made concrete through the images, characterization, and action of the text. It is a statement about life or human nature that the author conveys to the reader, i.e., Be careful about what you wish for. . . .
What is Theme
300
Language used to express ideas through figures of speech; descriptions that aren't meant to be taken literally; types of figurative language include simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification
What is Figurative language?
300
Figurative language in which an animal, object, or ideas is given human characteristics: The wind whispered through the night.
What is Personification?
400
Usually a minor character who tends to remain unchanged throughout the story; things happen to these characters without things happening within.
What is Static Character
400
The unraveling of the plot following the climax.
What is Falling Action (denouement)
400
The author’s attitude toward the subject (serious, sarcastic, objective, compassionate) which readers may infer from the language, imagery, and structure.
What is Tone?
400
The technique of using an image, person, place or thing to express the idea of something else: roses as symbols of love. (abstract ideas representing concrete things)
Symbolism
400
The opposite of hyperbole; a figure of speech statement, which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant: if one were in a desert where the temperature was 125 degrees, and saying "It's a little warm today."
What is Understatement (litotes)
500
One who undergoes change in response to events in the story.
What is Dynamic Character
500
The final part of the plot where you learn how everything works out.
What is Resolution
500
A social or regional variety of a particular language.
Dialect
500
An expression whose meaning can't be understood literally: It's raining cats and dogs.
What is Idiom?
500
The technique of using an image, person, place or thing to express the idea of something else: roses as symbols of love. (abstract ideas representing concrete things)
What is Symbolism?
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