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The one who is in conflict with the main character.
What is Antagonist
100
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is Conflict
100
A struggle between what the character wants to do and what he feels he must do.
What is Internal Conflict
100

The sequence of events in a story.

What is Plot

100

 the time and place of the action of a literary work.

What is Setting

200
The action rising in intensity and the resolution to the action.
What is Rising and Falling Action
200
The external problem that is standing in the way of a character.
What is External Conflict
200
The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings. Also, what he or she sees and is told by other characters.
What is Fist Person
200
The most important character of the story.
What is Protagonist
200
A style of narration in which the narrator does not participate in the action.
What is Third Person
300
The point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity.
What is Climax
300
A narrative device often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information.
What is Exposition
300
A character whose personality can be defined by one or two traits and does not change over the course of the story.
What is Flat Character
300
End of the story where loose ends are tied up.
What is Resolution
300
A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter.
What is Tone
400
The ending of a written work.
What is Conclusion
400
The exact definition of a word.
What is Denotative
400
A category of reading that is characterized by a type of style.
What is Genre
400
The perspective that the story is being presented.
What is Point of View
400
A detailed character with conflicting and complex personality traits.
What is Rounded Character
500
A reference in one work of literature to another work of literature, person, place, or historical event.
What is Allusion
500

The meaning of a word suggested by associations or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.

What is Connotative

500
When the author gives precise hints that something may happen later in a story.
What is Foreshadowing
500
When events are arranged in the order in which they happened
What is Chronological Order
500
The way in which the parts of a work of literature are put together.
What is Structure
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