Plot
Theme
Characters
Point of View
Language and Style
100
The structure of a story including the event and action.
What is the plot?
100
The main idea or underlying meaning of a story.
What is theme?
100
Also known as the protagonist.
What is the main character?
100
The person telling the story.
Who is the narrator?
100
When an inanimate object is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
The most intense moment in the story or the turning point.
What is the climax?
200
Feelings of the main character, thoughts and conversations, what the main character learns, the action or events in the story.
What are the ways themes are expressed?
200
The good guy (or girl).
Who is the protagonist?
200
A narrator who participates in the action.
What is first-person?
200
The opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
300
This is part of the rising action that leads to the climax and without it, there is no plot.
What is conflict?
300
Sometimes confused with theme, this is the topic about which the author has chosen to write.
What is the subject?
300
The character that opposes the protagonist or main character.
Who is the antagonist?
300
A narrator who sees and knows all.
What is omniscient?
300
Two ways of making comparisons between unlike things with and without the verbal clues "like" or "as"
What are simile and metaphor?
400
The action following the climax that is also known as the denouement.
What is the falling action?
400
Ask yourself what did the main character learn in the course of the story.
What is a way to understand the theme?
400
A character who grows or progresses to greater understanding in the story.
What is dynamic?
400
In third-person, the narrator can tell us what they see or hear, but they are this.
What is an outsider?
400
A repeating consonant sound such as "when the wind whistles wildly".
What is an alliteration?
500
This is a suggestion of something that is about to happen in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
"The meaning of friendship" - is this a topic or a theme?
What is topic?
500
The way an author brings characters to life in a story. May be stated or implied.
What is characterization?
500
The same events may have different meaning when considered from the _______________ of different characters.
What is point of view or perspective?
500
Another word for an exaggeration used to emphasize a point.
What is hyperbole?
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