Plot Elements
This is the word for the moment of highest tension in a story.
What is the climax?
This is the academic name for the "main character" in a story; the character whose goals the reader follows.
What is the protagonist?
It's been years since we were in the school building.
This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
A character saying something sarcastic is an example of this kind of irony.
What is verbal irony?
This is the word for the central idea or message of a story.
What is the theme?
This is the word for the ending or "wrap up" of the story.
What is the denouement?
Also accepted: What is the resolution?
These kinds of stereotypical and two-dimensional characters tend to appear over and over in different stories.
What are stock characters?
I'm as hungry as a tiger.
That is an example of this type of figurative language.Authors use this literary device when they refer to a specific historical event, person, or other work of literature.
What is an allusion?
A story told directly from a character's point of view (using I, me, my, we pronouns) uses this narrative point of view.
What is first person POV?
The beginning of a story when characters, setting, and conflicts are introduced is called this.
What is the exposition?
This is the word for General Zaroff's role in "The Most Dangerous Game," as it relates to Rainsford (the protagonist).
What is the antagonist?
It sent her on a rollercoaster of emotions.
This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
In "Sol Painting, Inc.," the dirtiness of the pool represented the ugly side of society that Merci was suddenly noticing more clearly. That is an example of this literary device.
What is symbolism?
These are the five types of conflict commonly found in stories.
What are human vs. human, human vs. self, human vs. nature, human vs. society, and human vs. fate.
This is the name for the part of Raymond's Run when Squeaky encounters Gretchen, Mary Louise, and Rosie on the street.
What is the rising action?
What is a foil character?
I can rely on you for anything; you're my rock.
This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
This is the literary device used when the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
Serious, humorous, mysterious, or condescending would all be words that could describe this element of a narrative.
What is tone?
Stories like "The Lady or the Tiger" and "The Landlady" are missing these two elements of the standard plot arc.
What are the falling action and the denouement?
[A cliffhanger ending.]
Name two secondary characters from the stories we have read so far (can be both from one story, or from two different ones).
Who is...
Ivan from "The Most Dangerous Game," Roli or Mami or Mr. Falco from "Sol Painting, Inc.," Raymond, Mary Louise, or Rosie from "Raymond's Run," David McClean from "The Veldt" (or the house??), the Seargent from "The Monkey's Paw"...
After a long day shoveling snow, the warm fireplace called my name.
This is an example of this type of figurative language.What is personification?
A police officer is wounded when a bullet ricochets off his bulletproof car and into his arm. That is an example of this literary device.
What is situational irony?
"Mix the sugar and the cinnamon together, then combine with the butter" is an example of this kind of point of view.
What is second person POV?