Character Development
What is characterization
The way a character acts, thinks, speaks, looks and their effect on others.
What do you call the feeling the author creates for the reader?
Mood
What term refers to the time and place of a story?
The Setting
What is it called when an author compares two things using like or as?
He went from being loving to mean towards his wife and animals.
What do you call the people, animals or imaginary creatures in a story?
Characters
What do you call the author's attitude toward the subject?
Tone
When a character has a conflict within?
Internal Conflict
True or False
An ironic twist is when the plot takes a turn that is opposite of what was expected.
True
What was the intended impact of the narrator’s plea in the exposition?
The narrator wanted to persuade the reader to believe his side of the story to prove his questionable innocence.
What is it called when an author specifically states a character's traits?
Direct Characterization
What do you call the most intense part of the plot structure? It is the peak of excitement for the story.
Climax
What do you call it when a story gives hints of what is to come?
Foreshadowing
What is it called when an author exaggerates a situation?
Hyperbole
How does the narrator’s struggle with alcoholism and irrational violence help develop the theme?
The narrator’s vices highlight the notion that some people may contribute to their own consequences.
What acronym can be used to analyze characterization?
STEAL
True or False
The exposition is the end of the story.
False
What is it called when an author gives a description that appeals to the senses?
Imagery
When the cat is given human characteristics of being evil and twisted, this is an example of what?
Personification
What was the purpose of including the rhetorical question below?
“ Are not we humans at all times pushed, ever driven in some unknown way to break the law just because we understand it to be the law?”
The narrator attempts to make himself appear more humane and justify his reason for mutilating the cat.
To hopefully make people better relate to him.
What do you call the main character in a story?
Protagonist
What do you call the main message of a story?
The theme
What mood word describes the feeling of uncertainty or curiosity?
Suspense
What do you call a phrase that has a different meaning from what is said?
For example when someone says 'hold your horses'
Idiom
How does the significance of Pluto’s name represent a bigger message in the story?
Pluto is also the name of a dark, ignored, insignificant denounced planet in the Milky Way solar system, and therefore speaks to a greater issue of who gets respect in life due to the impact they have on a person.