Characters
Plot
Important Story Elements
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100
The complication in a story, usually between a character and something else.
What is the conflict?
100
The main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward
What is the protagonist?
100
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
100

The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes.

What is an allusion?

100
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term? Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"
What is a symbol?
200
Conversation carried on by the characters in a work of literature
What is dialogue?
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 is known as what?
What is the setting?
200

A man is about to give a speech to a large audience on biology. Suddenly, he remembers playing with frogs and toads in his backyard as a curious child. He smiles at the memory, and then begins to speak to the audience about a new, groundbreaking finding about frogs.

What is a flashback?

200
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
300
The writer or narrator tells the reader what the character is like: "Slim was respected by everyone and heard more than what was said."
What is direct characterization?
300
The part of the plot where the greatest action, tension, or suspense occurs
What is the climax?
300
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
300
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
300
An author's specific way of writing, word choices, etc. describes what literary term?
What is style?
400
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
400
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?
What is the resolution?
400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is imagery?
400
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is irony?
400
A character that shows only one trait (like Mrs. Mitty) is known as what?
What is a flat character?
500
The author shows the reader what the character is like through what the character thinks, how the character affects other characters, what the character does. . .
What is indirect characterization?
500
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
500
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme?
500
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
500
A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues (like Walter Mitty) is known as what?
What is a round character?
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