Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100
What literary term 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 is known as what?
What is the climax?
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 boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?

What is a simile?

100

Any ONE thing 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
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
200
The part of the plot where the action begins is known as what?
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
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
200

This is a type of writing that ridicules (makes fun of) something in order to reveal weakness or injustices and cause a change.

What is Satire?

300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which 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 is known as what?

What is the falling action?

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
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint, this is what point of view?
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 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 sensory language?

400

A story suddenly shifts time and place to show you something that occurred in the past?

What is flashback?

400

A character that shows only one trait is known as what?

What is a flat/static character?

500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, this is known as which point of view?
What is omniscient point of view?
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

When an author hints at an event that might occur in the future?

What is a foreshadowing?

500

A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues is known as what?

What is a dynamic/round character?

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