Plot Diagram
Characterization
Conflict
General
Literary Techniques
100
What is a main character
What is a Protagonist?
100
What is a character who has only one or two personality traits, one-dimensional and can be described in a single phrase.
What is a Flat Character?
100
What is the action or series of events that lead to the climax
What is the Rising Action?
100
What is the message the writer wants to share with the reader
What is Theme?
100
What is a comparison between two things using “like” or “as”
What is Simile?
200
What is person/thing opposing protagonist
What is an Antagonist?
200
What is one who has more dimensions to his/her personality, complex, solid, multifaceted like people in real life.
What is a Round Character?
200
What is person vs. person person vs. society person vs. environment / nature / fate
What is External Conflict?
200
What is the feeling a piece of literature creates in the reader
What is the Atmosphere?
200
What is a comparison of two things without the words “like” or “as” that uses “is”
What is a Metaphor?
300
What is the ending
What is Denouement?
300
What is a dynamic character is one who changes over the course of the book, the main character are usually dynamic, dynamic characters are often round characters because they will have more than one trait to their personality
What is a Dynamic Character?
300
What is person vs. him or herself
What is Internal Conflict?
300
What is the author's attitude toward the subject
What is the Tone?
300
What is Personification
What is The tree danced in the wind?
400
What is 1. to describe the setting 2. to introduce the characters 3. to give any necessary background
What is the three purposes of the Introduction?
400
What is a static character is one who never changes their personality, they stay the same, and they are completely predictable, static characters are very often flat characters as well.
What is a Static Character?
400
What is the struggle between opposing forces
What is Conflict?
400
What is Narrator can describe characters and what they are doing, but will only communicate the thoughts and feelings of a single character (the main one).
What is Third Person-Limited?
400
What is a word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level.
What is a Symbol?
500
What is introduction, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, denoument
What is the progression of a story?
500
What is development of a character through: physical traits, speech and actions, insight/comments from the narrator, insight/comments/actions of other characters
What is Characterization?
500
What is the conflict is introduced / “the narrative hook”
What is the Inciting Incident?
500
What is Narrator knows all – thoughts, feelings, and ideas – of every character.
What is Third Person-Omniscient?
500
What is includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature. It signifies all the sensory perceptions such as visual (sight), auditory (sound), tactile (touch), thermal (heat and cold), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and kinesthetic sensation (movement).
What is Imagery?
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