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The time and place in which a story takes place.

What is setting?

100
The turning point and most suspenseful part of a story.
What is climax?
100
This is the main struggle or problem of a story.
What is conflict?
100
The method of narration; perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
100
The character who provides a striking contrast to another character.
What is foil?
200
The author gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea.
What is personification?
200
The writer's attitude toward a subject.

What is tone?

200
An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or work.
What is allusion?
200
Conversation between characters.

What is dialogue?

200
The word choice that an author uses.
What is diction?
300
The creation and development of characters.
What is characterization?
300
An account of something that happens before the beginning of the story.
What is flashback?
300
Clues or hints that foretell what will happen later in a story.

What is foreshadowing?

300
The excitement or tension that a reader feels.
What is suspense?
300
Descriptive words and phrases that re-create a sensory experience.
What is imagery?
400
When the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is irony?
400
The underlying message about human life or nature.

What is theme?

400
The particular way that something is written.
What is style?
400
The writer's unique use of language that "sounds" like him or her.
What is voice?
400
A kind of paradox that brings together two contradictory words.

What is oxymoron?

500
A seemingly contradictory statement that suggests a truth.

What is paradox?

500
The exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
500
The person or force opposing the protagonist.

What is antagonist?

500
Comparison of unlike things with something in common using like or as.

What is simile?

500
An exaggeration for effect or humor.

What is hyperbole?

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