Plot Stucture
Characterization
Reading Skills
Figurative Language
Literary Device
100
The end of a story when all conflicts have been resolved
What is the resolution?
100
This is when the author tells you about a character's personality. "The quiet girl and well-mannered boy were always obedient."
What is direct characterization
100

Annotating means to

What is take notes in the text while you read?

100
Her laughter sounded like bells
What is a simile?
100
When reading a ghost story, you might feel tense and afraid.
What is mood?
200
The major turning point of a story
What is the climax
200
This is when the reader must make an inference about characterization as opposed to the author telling about the character directly.
What is indirect characterization?
200

Summarize

What is taking the important details from a chapter or story and combining them into a description?

200
Cotton-candy clouds turned pink in the sunset
What is a metaphor?
200
When Ms. Muse talks about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she is excited and fanatic.
What is tone?
300
The beginning of a story
What is the exposition
300
You can tell a character is static because they...

What is do not change, stay the same, does not develop, etc

300

Context

What is the circumstances and extra information that affect the story and its outcome?

300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! (1) This is a synonym for sensory details. (2) Theses are the types of sensory detail for each sense.
What is imagery? What are visual/sight, audial/sound, tactile/touch, olfactory/smell, gustatory/taste?
300

In a story, a character mentions she has a bad feeling about a group of birds she keeps seeing around town. Later in the story, the character is attacked by the birds.

What is foreshadowing?

400
Conflicts occur to build tension and move plot forward during this
What is rising action
400

You can tell a character is dynamic because they...

What is change, develop, evolve, etc by the end of the story
400
Inference

What is something you assume or guess from the other information given to you in a story?

400
I'm so hungry I could eat an entire horse!
What is a hyperbole?
400
When a different result from what was expected takes place (hint: 2 words)
What is situational irony?
500
After the climax, minor conflicts are also resolved during this
What is falling action
500

1. The protagonist and

2. The antagonist

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

What are the main character or leading character, and the character who directly opposes the protagonist, or is against them?

500

Syntax

What is the set of rules that define how a language is structured and formed?
500
An idea, object, color, etc. that represents something else
What is a symbol?
500
When what the speaker says is intended to mean something different. (Hint: 2 words)
What is verbal irony?
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