What is a one-sided character who does not exhibit many character traits?
100
Setting
What is the time and the place of a literary story?
100
Initiating Event or Initiating Incident
What is the event that sets the story in motion?
100
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of words that imitate sounds?
100
Nonfiction
What is a type of literature that is not made up?
200
Static Character
What is a character who does not change throughout the course of the story?
200
Conflict
What is a struggle between opposing forces?
200
Exposition
What is the area called that introduces the main characters, extablishes the setting, and introduces the conflict?
200
Personification
What is a type of figurative language that provides a nonhuman subject with human characteristics?
200
Autobiography
What is a story that one writes about one's own self?
300
Characterization
What is the act of creating and developing a character?
300
External Conflict
What is the type of conflict when man is against man?
300
Climax
What is high point of the action (also known as the turning point)?
300
Simile
What is the following phrase:
"Her love is like a red, red rose."
300
Biography
What is a story that one writes about someone else's life?
400
Antagonist
What is a character or force that is in conflict with the main character?
400
External Conflict
What is the type of conflict when man battles technology?
400
Resolution
What is the point at which the story is resolved?
400
Metaphor
What is the following phrase:
"Her happiness was a rainbow across the sky."
400
Author's Purpose
What is it called when we identify the three reasons for writing as to entertain, to inform, and to persuade?
500
Indirect Characterization
What is it when a writer depends upon the reader to draw their own conclusions about a character based upon the character's actions, behaviors, and words?
500
Internal Conflict
What is the type of conflict when man battles his own mind?
500
Theme
What is main message or lesson of the story?
500
Haiku
What is a three line Japanese poem that has 5 syllables in both its first and third lines but seven syllables in its second line?
500
Stereotyping
What is it called when we generalize a group of people based upon an isolated incident?