Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100
The literary term that 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.
What is the climax?
100
This literary term is defined as the main character in the action of a literary work.
What is a protagonist?
100
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example this.
What is a simile?
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
The view from which a story is being told is known as this.
What is point of view?
200
The part of the plot where the action and complications begin is known as this.
What is the rising action?
200
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as this.
What is the setting?
200
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
200
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is known as 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 this.
What is the falling action?
300
This 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.
What is personification?
300
The feeling a reader gets from a piece of literature.
What is mood?
400
The author providing clues or hints to the reader about something that is going to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as this.
What is the resolution?
400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as this.
What is imagery?
400
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality is known as this.
What is situational irony?
400
A character that shows only one trait.
What is a flat character?
500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, it is known as this 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 this.
What is the exposition?
500
The central message or insight about life revealed through a literary work is the definition of this 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 this.
What is a hyperbole?
500
A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues.
What is a round character?
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