Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100

Literary term which can be defined as the person telling the story

What is the narrator?

100

The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs.

What is the climax?

100

Literary term defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?

What is a character?

100

"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a simile?

100

Anything that stands for or represents something else. Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"

What is a symbol?

200

The view from which a story is being told is known as this literary term

What is point of view?

200

The part of the plot where the action begins.

What is the rising action?

200

The time and place of the action in a literary work.

What is the setting?

200

"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a metaphor?

200

The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.

What is tone?

300

When a character in the story tells the story, this is it is from this point of view.

What is first person point of view?

300

The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close.

What is the falling action?

300

A literary term which can be defined as the sequence of events.

What is the plot?

300

When something nonhuman is given human characteristics it is known as this type of figurative language. 

What is personification?

300

An author's specific way of writing, word choices, etc. 

What is style or voice?

400

When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint.

What is third person point of view?

400

The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved.

What is the resolution?

400

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses.

What is sensory imagery?

400

A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant.

What is irony?

400

A character that shows only one trait.

What is a flat character?

500

When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing.

What is omniscient point of view?

500

The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.

What is the exposition?

500

The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work.

What is theme.

500

A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom." 

What is a hyperbole?

500

A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues.

What is a round character?

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