Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Authors and Characters
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
The main character in "Marigolds".
Who is Lizabeth?
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
The author of "Most Dangerous Game"
Who is Richard Connell?
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
The antagonist in "Cask of Amontillado".
Who is Fortunato?
400
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from only one character's perspective, this is what point of view?
What is third person limited 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
When a reader knows what is going to happen, but the character doesn't.
What is dramatic irony?
400
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality describes what literary term?
What is irony?
400
The author of "The Scarlet Ibis".
Who is James Hurst?
500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, this is known as which point of view?
What is third-person 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
Using the same sound at the beginning of three or more words - Betty bought bananas?
What is alliteration?
500
The antagonist in "Marigolds".
Who is Miss Lottie?
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