A type of irony in which a person or character states one thing, intending to mean the complete opposite.
What is verbal irony?
100
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
100
The beginning of a story - the characters, setting, and plot are first introduced.
What is the exposition?
100
Time and place of the action in a story.
What is setting?
100
The character is the narrator and expresses their own thoughts and sights of the story.
What is first person?
200
A type of irony in which incongruity appears between the expectations of something and the actual outcome.
What is situational irony?
200
The main opposition of the main character of a story.
What is the antagonist?
200
An issue a character may have with several other factors or characters, such as an oppressive government against a rebel.
What is the external conflict?
200
The atmosphere or general feeling given off from a story.
What is mood?
200
The narrator is "on the shoulder" of one character at a time and has access to all of their thoughts and sights.
What is third person limited?
300
A type of irony in which, you, the reader or viewer, know more than the actual characters of the plot.
What is dramatic irony?
300
A character that is not very well revealed, described, or explained to the reader or viewer.
What is a flat character?
300
An issue that a character may have with him or herself, such as their personality.
What is the internal conflict?
300
The portrayal of certain events through using words or phrases that can be depicted through the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
The narrator is an observer who is only capable of relaying things or facts that are observable.
What is third person objective?
400
This, in many cases, uses verbal irony alongside other literary terms such as exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and parody. This is usually used to make fun of political situations through outrageous fashions.
What is satire?
400
A character that remains the same throughout a story.
What is a static character?
400
The sequence of events following the climax and before the resolution.
What is the falling action?
400
The central idea or moral of a story; a universal concept that can apply to everyone.
What is theme?
400
The narrator is all-knowing and has access to all characters' thoughts, sights, and interactions.
What is third person omniscient?
500
The type of irony in The Wizard of Oz in which the people thought that the wizard was almighty and powerful, while in truth he was only a con artist.
What is situational irony?
500
A character that changes as the story progresses.
What is a dynamic character?
500
The result or conclusion of a story (doesn't necessarily have to "get rid of" to the conflict).
What is the resolution?
500
Type of imagery that involves touching or feeling.
What is kinesthetic imagery?
500
The point of view of John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men.