Who is telling the story?
What is the literary term for the person or voice telling the story?
What is the narrator or speaker?
This is the part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs.
What is the climax?
This literary term is 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 form of figurative language.
What is a simile?
They may not always be the "good guy", but this is the character most aspects of the story seem to revolve around.
Who is the Protagonist?
This is the perspective from which a story is being told.
What is point of view?
This point in the plot shows tension and conflict going way, way up.
What is the rising action?
This category has everything to do with the time and place of a text.
What is the setting?
"Life is a box of chocolates" is an example of this literary term since it's comparing two items WITHOUT using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
These characters may not be the main focus in the story, but their presence helps the story move forward and develop nonetheless.
What are minor characters?
When a character in the story tells the story and usees pronouns such as "I, we, us," and "me" suggests this point of view is being used.
What is first person point of view?
This point in the plot sees major conflicts and tensions begin to calm down, or final outcomes start to become clear.
What is the falling action?
Ideas like "Great friends can make even greater enemies" and "A wrong can be forgotten, but never forfeited," are examples of this literary term.
What is/are (a) theme(s)?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is what we call it.
What is personification?
They may not be evil or openly bad, but this character opposes whomever the reader or audience is most attached.
Who is the Antagonist?
This part of the plot sees the major conflicts and tensions put to rest, once and for all.
What is the resolution?
This is what we call writing or speech that is so descriptive the audience can almost envision it.
What is imagery?
"The brother of the brave brown bear is a cowardly lion" is an example of this literary term.
What is alliteration?
This is the term for a character that never changes from beginning to end.
What is a static character?
This is where the narrator or speaker knows all the characters, their motives and thoughts.
What is the omniscient point of view?
This point in the plot can take a while to get through because characters, settings and overall conflicts are being conveyed to the reader.
What is the exposition?
While there may be many concepts or notions raised in a text, this is what we call the most important or major one.
What is the main idea?
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of this literary term.
What is a hyperbole?
This is a protagonist who is not entirely good and has noticeable problems that can lead to their downfall.
What is a tragic hero?