Story Vocabulary
the main character in the story
What is a Protagonist?
Characters, setting, and basic situations are revealed
What is the Exposition?
These are the two main types of conflict
What is internal and external conflict?
This is a character that you do not know well.
What is a Flat Character?
a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a Simile?
The chain of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
moves the plot along, where complications arise
What is the Rising Action?
This is a struggle between a character and his feelings, conscience, or fear.
What is Man vs Self?
A character that you know a lot about
What is a Round Character?
an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true
What is a hyperbole?
The character or force in a conflict with the protagonist.
What is the Antagonist?
the most exciting or intense part of the story for the protagonist
What is the Climax?
This is a struggle between a character and the laws or beliefs of a group.
What is Man vs Society?
A character that stays the same throughout the story
What is a Static Character?
giving human qualities to nonhuman things
What is personification?
The time and place of a story
What is the setting?
Events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution
What is the Falling Action?
This is a struggle between two characters
What is Man vs Man?
A character who undergoes an important inner change
What is a Dynamic Character?
a reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, etc.
What is an allusion?
Problems that arise as characters struggle to reach their goals
What are complications?
the end of the story, conflicts resolved
What is the Resolution?
This is a struggle between a character and weather, animals, or sickness.
What is Man vs Nature?
A character whose situation you understand, sympathize with, or relate to
What is a Sympathetic Character?
a group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from its individual meaning
What is an idiom?