Characterization
Usually the main character, often the hero.
What is the protagonist?
When the narrator shows the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is Third-Person Limited?
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
The traditional way a writer breaks up the action of a play.
What is an Act?
A character that experiences no significant changes over the course of the story.
What is a static character?
The universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a text.
What is theme?
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The feeling a word evokes.
What is connotation?
The division of an act in a play.
What is a scene?
When a writer shows the character's personality through speech, actions, and appearance.
What is direct characterization?
The emotional response that the writer wants to evoke in the reader.
What is mood?
When the writer uses a well-known story, event, person, or object to make a comparison in the reader's mind.
What is an allusion?
Creating a heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A speech given by a single character.
What is a monologue?
Conflict that takes place inside the character's head dealing with the psychology of the character.
What is internal conflict?
The writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.
What is tone?
A phrase conveying a figurative meaning that, taken literally, makes no sense.
What is an idiom?
Intentionally making a situation less important than it is.
What is understatement?
Spoken by a character, but not meant to be heard by other characters or the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
Motivation that is related to personal pleasure, leisure, and interest.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Word choices made by the author.
What is diction?
Polite phrases that take the place of something sad or unpleasant.
What is a euphemism?
A type of communication that does not use a word's strict or literal meaning.
What is figurative language?
A character's spoken words not heard by other actors on the stage.
What is an aside?