Plot Pyramid
Conflict
Character
Hodge Podge
Hodge Podge 2
100
This is the high point of intensity in the conflict.
What is the climax?
100

This is the definition of conflict.

What is a struggle between two opposing forces?

100

This is how an author communicates what characters are like.

What is characterization?

100
This is a person, an animal, or even an object that participates in the action and experiences the events of a literary work.
What is a character?
100
This is when a person, place, thing or event stands for both itself and a larger idea or feeling.
What is a symbol?
200
This is where the conflict concludes and loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
200

This is the only internal conflict.

What is man versus himself?

200

True or false: A story must be read entirely before it can be fully understood. 

What is true?

200
This is the use of clues to hint at events that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
This is a difference or contradiction between appearance and reality or between what is expected and what actually happens.
What is irony?
300

The point in the story when the central conflict is  introduced. (early, middle or late)

What is the early?

300

Man versus man, man versus society, man versus nature.

What is external conflict?

300

_________ is descriptions created to appeal any of our five human senses.

What is imagery?

300

Three elements that you must understand before you can figure out meaning from a story.

What are setting, characters and plot?

300
This is when something happens that contradicts the expectations of a character or a reader.
What is situational irony?
400

These two elements create the setting.

What is time and place?

400

After the main conflict is created, there are any number of minor conflicts to create the plot, or story line. These make up what in story structure?

What is the rising action?

400

A ________ states that one thing is another thing to create an image or meaning.

What is a metaphor?

400
This is a feeling of tension that keepps readers wondering what will happen next.
What is suspense?
400

This character is one dimensional showing only one trait.

What is a flat character?

500

This is where background information is given about the characters, setting or other aspects of the story.

What is exposition?

500

"In some stories there may not be a true resolution of conflict, but an __________, or sudden flash of insight. The conflict remains, but the character's feelings change."

What is epiphany?

500

To provide support for your ideas about a story you will refer to things that characters _____ and things that characters ______.

What is say and do?

500

This character develops changes and learns something during the course of the story.

What is dynamic character?

500
This is a poem or short story that has parallel literal and symbollic meanings. EVERY element in the story including the characters, events, descriptions, and features of the setting, has a symbollic meaning.
What is an allegory?
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