Stage of the plot where background information is given. Sets up the main conflict.
What is the Exposition?
100
The main character of a story.
What is the Protagonist?
100
A feeling or emotion that is evoked throughout the text.
What is the Mood?
100
Something that represents something else. Usually a physical object that represents an abstract idea.
What is a Symbol?
100
A specific topic in a story. Not the theme
What is a Subject?
200
Stage of the plot. Turning point of action and conflict; usually a decisive moment or crossroads in the story.
What is the Climax?
200
Comments on or descriptions of a certain character spoken directly by the narrator.
What is Direct Characterization?
200
A point of view where the narrator is part of the story. The narrator is usually the main character in the story.
What is First Person?
200
A type of irony that relies on something happening that is the opposite of what one would expect.
What is Situational Irony?
200
In this short story (that we read) the idea that "all life is valuable" is one of the themes.
What is The Most Dangerous Game?
300
A warning or indication of a later event in the story. Usually takes place in the Rising Action.
What is Foreshadowing?
300
The time and place of the action in a story.
What is the Setting?
300
Point of view where the narrator tells the story from an outside perspective. However, the narrator tells the story from the vantage point of one character, whose thoughts and emotions can be accessed.
What is Third Person Limited?
300
Verbal Irony, when combined with mockery, results in this.
What is Sarcasm?
300
The central or dominant idea behind a story.
What is Theme?
400
A type of conflict where a character wrestles with their emotions, morality, or other struggles inside their mind.
What is an Internal Conflict?
400
The character that is the enemy of the main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
400
Point of view where the narrator tells the story from an outside perspective. However, the narrator can access the thoughts and emotions of all the characters in the story.
What is Third Person Omniscient?
400
A type of irony where the audience seems to know more than the character(s).
What is Dramatic Irony?
400
In this story (that we read) the idea of prejudice is one of the themes. These prejudices include: racism, ageism, sexism, ableism, and classism.
What is Of Mice and Men?
500
Stage of the plot where the conflict is made clear and developed. The Inciting Incident sets the conflict into motion.
What is the Rising Action?
500
A character that makes no change in mind or heart throughout the story.
What is a Static Character?
500
A type of sensory imagery that contributes to the mood by describing how something or someone looks.
What is Visual Imagery?
500
A type of irony where the speaker says the opposite of what he or she meant.
What is Verbal Irony?
500
A universal statement about humanity or the nature of things. Based on the theme.