Characterization
Genre
Literary Elements
Structure
Random
100
This is a character who does not grow or change throughout the story.
What is a static character?
100
A story set in the past that combines real and fictional figures and events.
What is historical?
100
This is the time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
100
This is when the narrator uses pronouns like, "I" or "me".
What is first-person?
100
This type of character has many traits.
What is a round or complex character?
200
This type of character has only one or two traits.
What is a flat or stock character?
200
A story with comical characters and situations.
What is humorous?
200
This is something, like a person or object, that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
200
This is the introduction of a plot.
What is the exposition?
200
"Marriage is a Private Affair" But then, it really isn't private at all, according to Achebe.
What is verbal irony?
300
This is when an author reveals a character's traits by showing, rather than telling. An example is Marquez's description of Esteban's height: "They could see him in life, condemned to going through doors sideways, cracking his head on crossbeams..."
What is indirect characterization?
300
This is the type of story in which believable characters face true-to-life conflicts.
What is realistic?
300
This is when the reader knows something a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
300
This takes place between a character and an outside force (another character, nature, or society).
What is an external conflict?
300
This is when the narrator speaks in the third person, but they don't know the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is third-person limited?
400
This is a character that changes and grows throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
400
This type of story is usually set in the future.
What is speculative, or science fiction?
400
This is a story that uses many symbols to create a separate message from the basic plot.
What is an allegory?
400
Often times, this is what will shape a story's structure.
What is genre?
400
This is the type of first-person that understands less about events in the story than readers do. An example would be Scout in TKAM.
What is naive first person?
500
Here is an example of this term: "My father is a priest; I am the son of a priest."
What is direct characterization?
500
This is an imitation of another story or style, intended to make fun of or comment on the original.
What is parody?
500
This is when an event occurs that surprises the reader, even though there have been subtle clues throughout the story that support or predict this event.
What is situational irony?
500
This is when a character reaches a sudden insight, rather than a resolution, at the end of a story.
What is an epiphany?
500
"A thousand dollars means much or little."
What is a paradox?
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