The message about human nature illustrated throughout the story
What is theme?
100
When the story is told from the point of view of a character within the story using "I" "me" "my"
What is first person?
100
Define conflict
What is the struggle between opposing forces; problem in the story the protagonist has to solve?
100
Define plot
What is the events that happen in the story?
100
The person central to the story with all major events having some importance to this character, AND the character who opposes/blocks the first person from reaching their goal
What is the protagonist and antagonist?
200
Flashback
What is when a character thinks back to an event that occurred before the story began?
200
The story is told from the perspective of an outside observer who knows every character's thoughts and feelings
What is third person omniscient?
200
The difference between internal and external conflict
What is the struggle that occurs within the heart and mind of the character, and the struggle that occurs outside of the character
200
The perspective in which the story is told
What is point of view?
200
The two definitions of "character"
What is (1) the person in a work of fiction and (2) the characteristics of a person?
300
The two ways of characterization and their definition
What is direct characterization where the author tells you what the character is like, and indirect characterization where the author makes hints as to what the character is like
300
The point of view that uses the pronouns he, she, and they and only tells the reader about one of the character's thoughts and feelings
What is third person limited omniscient?
300
BONUS!
Ms. Lee's favourite colour
What is purple?
300
A dynamic and static character
What is a character who undergoes a major change by the end of the story, and a character who does not change by the end of the story?
300
A flat character and round character
What is a character with only one or two defined characteristics and a character with many different aspects to his/her personality?
400
The 3 types of irony and their definitions
what is situational: when what you don't expect to happen happens
dramatic: when the audience knows something the characters don't
verbal: when you say the opposite of what you mean
400
When the narrator only describes what's happening on the surface without describing any of the character's thoughts or feelings
What is third person objective?
400
Character foil
What is it when two characters balance each other in some way (portrayed as the opposite); opposite characteristic is emphasized
400
The 5 stages of a plot graph
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement?
400
Tone and mood
What is the attitude the author has towards the subject, and the atmosphere/feeling the reader gets from the story
500
a hint as to what will happen in the story later
and
a physical object, place, or person that represents something else
What is foreshadowing, and symbolism?
500
4 types of resolutions
What is expository happy, expository sad, surprise/twist, and unresolved/indeterminate/cliffhanger?
500
Name 5 types of external conflict.
What is character vs. character, character vs. society, character vs. environment, character vs. supernatural, character vs. technology
500
The 5 aspects of setting
What is time, place, weather, social conditions, and atmosphere?
500
5 ways of indirect characterization
What/how the character SAYS, THINKS, character's EFFECT on others, ACTS, and LOOKS
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