Who is telling the story?
Literary term which can be defined as the person telling the story
What is the narrator?
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs.
What is the climax?
Literary term defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
Anything that stands for or represents something else. Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"
What is a symbol?
The view from which a story is being told is known as this literary term
What is point of view?
The part of the plot where the action begins.
What is the rising action?
The time and place of the action in a literary work.
What is the setting?
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
What is tone?
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?
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close.
What is the falling action?
A literary term which can be defined as the sequence of events.
What is the plot?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics it is known as this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
An author's specific way of writing, word choices, etc.
What is style or voice?
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint.
What is third person point of view?
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved.
What is the resolution?
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses.
What is sensory imagery?
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant.
What is irony?
A character that shows only one trait.
What is a flat character?
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing.
What is omniscient point of view?
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition?
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work.
What is theme.
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom."
What is a hyperbole?
A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues.
What is a round character?