Plot
What is the point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved?
Climax
What is a final resolution that appears in a narrative plot or a long poem?
Catastrophe
What do you call the main idea that an author is trying to present in literary work?
Theme
What do we call the vantage point of the character or characters through whom the story is told?
Point of view
What is the repetition of initial SOUNDS (rather than letters) of words that are close to one another?
Alliteration
What is the main opposition, obstacle, or main complication that characters need to navigate in order for the story to reach a conclusion?
Main conflict
What is something or someone that causes an event to occur or to occur sooner than it normally would?
Catalyst
What is a general term for the way a writer uses words to create an image or sensation for the reader?
Imagery
What is a point of view that allows the author to give the reader more information than would normally come through the point of view of a character in the story?
Third person omniscient
What is the term to describe the word choices that an author makes?
Diction
What is the conclusion after the climax of a narrative in which the complexities of the plot are unraveled and the conflict is finally resolved?
Denouement
What is the struggle or tension between opposing forces?
What is the sensation or emotion that an author creates in the reader by his use of words?
What kind of point of view do you call it when a story is told by one of the characters of the story from their perspective, easily identified by looking for first-person pronouns, like "I," "you," and "my"?
First person
What do you call ancient words that are now rarely used?
Archaic
What is the explanation of the situation in which the characters of a story are involved and a presentation of the problem to be solved?
Exposition
What is the term for the sequence of events in the story as they are revealed to the reader?
Plot
What do you call the attitude of the writer toward his work? For instance, comic, serious, melodramatic, or cynical
Tone
What do you call a point of view where the reader sees the story through the eyes of a character who is limited to knowing only what that character is expected to know in that particular situation?
Third person limited
What is a more delicate term for an unpleasant object or event?
Euphemism
What is the section of a story that leads toward its climax?
Rising action
What are the four basic types of conflict seen in most literary works?
Man against nature, man against man, man against himself, and man against god
What do you call the development of a character in a story?
Characterization
What is a character who represents the voice of an author in a work and which literally means “another self”?
Alter ego
What do you call the scientific study of a language and it’s structure?
Linguistics