What is the first stage of a typical story plot- introduces the setting, and important characters?
What is the exposition.
100
What is the way a writer creates and develops characters?
What is characterization
100
_______ occurs when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story.
What is foreshadowing.
100
What is a person, place, object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself?
What is symbolism.
100
What is giving an animal, object, or idea human abilities?
What is personification.
200
What is the stage of the plot where the conflict or struggle develops?
What is the rising action.
200
What is it called when the narrator is a character in the story?
What is first person point of view.
200
__________ is a struggle that occurs within one character.
What is internal conflict.
200
What is it called when someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another?
What is verbal irony.
200
What is a figure of speech that makes comparisons between two unlike things using like or as?
What is simile.
300
What occurs usually at the end of a story- conflict is resolved?
What is the climax.
300
What is it when the narrator tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observes?
What is third person limited point of view.
300
_________________ is a struggle that occurs with a character who is struggling against a force outside him or her such as nature, a physical obstacle, or another character.
What is external conflict.
300
What is the reader or viewer knows something that a character does not know?
What is dramatic irony.
300
What is a comparison of two things that are basically unlike but have some qualities in common?
What is metaphor.
400
What is it when the plot begins to draw to a close?
What is falling action.
400
What is the all knowing point of view?
What is third person omniscient point of view.
400
What is a message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader?
What is the theme.
400
What is a contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exists or happens?
What is climactic/situational irony.
400
What is the reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature?
What is allusion.
500
What is it when the plot begins to draw to a close?
What is the resolution.
500
What is it called when the story expresses the writer's attitude toward his or her subject
What is tone.
500
What is the feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for the reader?
What is the mood.
500
What is an expression that has a meaning different from of its individual words?
What is idiom.
500
What is a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect?