the main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play, or story
What is Protagonist
100
A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions.
What is Genres?
100
the sequence of events in a poem, play, novel, or short story that make up the main story line
What is Plot
100
a short account of the news
What is News report
100
at its simplest level, it means saying one thing while meaning another
What is Irony
200
Persons—or animals or natural forces represented as persons—in a work of literature. Characters may be static (stay the same) or dynamic (undergo a change in personality or attitude) and flat (merely sketched out often stereotypical or stock) or round (more fully developed).
What is Character
200
fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread and sometimes fear in both the characters and the reader
What is Horror?
200
The time and the place in which the action of a book, film, play, and so on happens. Setting may also include mood and atmosphere.
What is Setting
200
a book of information for travelers.
What is Guide book
200
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.
What is Metonymy
300
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or
hero/heroine of a story
What is Antagonist
300
Usually a fiction full of fun, fancy, and excitement, meant to entertain and sometimes cause intended laughter; but can be contained in all genres
What is Humor
300
A struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature. It may be external (person v. person, person v. society, person v. nature/fate) or internal (person v. self)
What is Conflict
300
a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.
What is Textbook
300
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; it actually states that one thing is the other
What is Metaphor
400
Point of view where the narrator can take us all over the world, allow us to see into the minds of all the characters, and help us to see events from several points of view.
What is Omniscient
400
fiction with strange or otherworldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality
What is Fantasy
400
The moment of highest emotional intensity in a plot, when the outcome of the conflict is finally made clear to us.
What is Climax/Turning Point
400
a small book or magazine containing pictures and information about a product or service.
What is Brochure/leaflet
400
A short, simple tale, usually about an ordinary, familiar event, from which a moral or religious lesson is drawn.
What is Parable
500
One who narrates, or tells, as story.
What is Narrator
500
Any work of literature that includes material that is invented or imagined, that is not a record of things as they actually happened.
What is Fiction
500
a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.
What is Novel
500
a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.
What is Blog
500
a statement that appears contradictory, but when considered more closely is seen to contain a good deal of truth