All about the people
Wait...what happened?
The "meat" of the story
Author's techniques
BONUS
100
Narrator
What is the speaker who tells the story?
100
Plot
What is the main events or what happens in a story?
100
The method used by a writer to reveal the personality of a character
What is characterization?
100
Flashback
What is a scene that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier?
100
Alliteration
What is the repetition of consonant sounds?
200
Dynamic Character
What is a character who develops or grows during the story?
200
Setting
What is the time and place (when and where) the story takes place?
200
External Conflict
What is the problem that exists between the character and an outside force (man vs. man/society/nature)?
200
A character, action, setting, or object repesenting something else in a story
What is a symbol?
200
Bam! Pow! Plop!
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
The main character (usually the hero or heroine) in the story
What is Protagonist?
300
The turning point in the story in the main character's point of view or fortune (highest point of readers' interest)
What is the climax?
300
The narrator is a character in the story and uses the pronoun "I"
What is first person?
300
Foreshadowing
What is the use of hints or clues to suggest events that have not yet happened?
300
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
400
Antagonist
What is the character who opposes the main character (often the villain)?
400
The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear?
What is the resolution
400
Third Person
What is when the narrator is outside the story and uses the pronouns he and she?
400
The central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
What is the theme?
400
When the narrator is all knowing and relates the story through eyes of many characters
What is third person omniscient?
500
A character who does not change
What is a static character?
500
Exposition
What is the beginning of the story that introduces the setting, characters, and gives important background information?
500
The problem a character faces within him/herself (man vs. self)?
What is internal conflict?
500
Irony
What is the occurrence of unexpected events, especially found in surprise endings?
500
The tree moved silently through the night. (When human characteristics are given to an animal or object.)
What is personification?
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