This element helps build anxiety and keeps us on the edge of our seat.
What is suspense?
100
This is the most emotional part of the story.
What is climax?
100
This person is not always reliable or perceptive. "You are a man to be missed . . . "
What is an unreliable narrator?
100
These hints can help you guess the meaning of unknown words.
What are context clues?
100
An episode of Southpark inferred that the History Channel isn't always reliable. Harrison Bergeron told of a world where were are all equal, "Every which way." This type of story is a __________.
What is satire?
200
This is a struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
200
The plot is often driven by cause and
What is effect?
200
This form of narration focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one person, as in "The Necklace."
What is third-person limited point of view?
200
This is an inference based on evidence, like, "You will meet a tall, dark stranger."
What is a prediction?
200
This is when the ending is unexpected but logical.
What is a surprise ending?
300
This is where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
300
This is the part of the story where the conflict is introduced.
What is the rising action?
300
This is when a person in the story tells the story, usually using the pronoun "I."
What is first person point of view?
300
This is used to build suspense and anxiety by the use of clues about what is coming up in the story. This has nothing to do with three or five but lies in between.
What is foreshadowing?
300
This was the job of The Handicapper General.
Who made everyone equal?
400
This is when a character struggles with fear, or a secret, or making a tough decision.
What is an internal conflict.
400
This is the final part of the plot line.
What is resolution?
400
This is when the person who tells the story knows everything about all the characters in the story.
What is third person omnicient?
400
This is the uncertainty that keeps us on the edge of our seat.
What is suspense?
400
This was General Zaroff's new game to hunt.
What are people?
500
This is when a character struggles against another character, or nature, or society.
What is external conflict?
500
This part of the plot comes after the climax, when the audience learns a little about what will happen to the characters before the end.
What is falling action?
500
He is the narrator of Forrest Gump.
Who is Forrest Gump?
500
This is the Montressor wants revenge against Fortunato. This one word was his motivation to murder his friend, and we never learn specifically what it was.
What is an insult?
500
When a sniper kills his enemy he achieves his objective. When the sniper learns that his enemy was his brother, it is this literary term.