Figurative Language
Character Analysis
Literary Devices
Plot
Descriptive Language
100
the repetition of consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
100
When an author makes direct statements about a character's personality.
What is direct characterization?
100
a description that affects one or more of the senses
What is imagery?
100
where a story takes place
What is setting?
100
the emotion of a reader in response to a particular text
What is mood?
200
comparing two unrelated things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
When authors reveal information about a character through their thoughts, words, actions and how others respond to them.
What is indirect characterization?
200
a representation of something by a symbol
What is symbolism?
200
the "turning point" or highest point of action in a story
What is the climax?
200
conversations between two or more characters in a text
What is dialogue?
300
comparing two unrelated things using like or as
What is a simile?
300
The person who gives an account or tells a story.
What is a narrator?
300
a device where the the author pauses the current action to go back in time
What is a flashback?
300
the part of the story where the conflict is resolved
What is the resolution?
300
an author shows or indicates beforehand something that will happen later
What is foreshadowing?
400
An intentional exagerration to make a point
What is a hyperbole?
400
a character that stays the same from the beginning to the end of a story
What is a flat or static character?
400
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning, or an occurence that is the opposite of what is expected
What is irony?
400
the main problem in a story that causes the action
What is the conflict?
400
the repetition of vowel sounds to create a rhyme
What is assonance?
500
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
500
a character in fiction who evolves from the beginning to the end of the story.
What is a dynamic or round character?
500
the emotion of a setting or scene
What is tone?
500
The beginning of a story where the characters and background of the story are introduced
What is the exposition?
500
the character who is central or primary to the action in the story
Who is the protagonist?
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