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This term means to hint at future events within a novel
What is foreshadowing
100
This is defined as a character that does not change or evolve throughout the story.
What is a static character?
100
This is to compare two like things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
This term means extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole
100
This word means to organize an essay by size or location
What is spatial?
200
This term is defined as a character that emotionally changes and grows between the beginning and the end of the story.
What is a dynamic character
200
When a character struggles with a decision it is called this kind of conflict
What is internal conflict (man vs self)
200
This is comparing two like things without using like or as
What is a metaphor
200
This term means a play on words, usually a joke.
What is a pun
200
this type of narrator is stuck in only one place at a time
What is a limit narrator?
300
This term is defined as the hero, or main character of a literary work.
What is the protagonist
300
When a character has a conflict with another character, it is this type of conflict.
What is an external conflict
300
This is a contradiction in terms
What is irony
300
This term means a repetition of the same sound.
What is alliteration
300
This is a common idea that shows in all of the work (IE: In Chopin, it is feminism)
What is a theme?
400
This term is defined as the order of events on a timeline within a story.
What is chronological order
400
Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, Man vs Society, and Man vs Technology are all classified as this type of conflict.
What is external conflict?
400
this is a item used to represent something else, like an idea or theme
What is a symbol?
400
This term means referencing an outside story or event from the bible
What is a biblical allusion?
400
This is a narrator that can be in multiple places at one time
What is an omnipresent narrator?
500
This term is defined as a character that is against or causes conflict within a story
What is the antagonist?
500
This term means to revisit or remember a scene that has already happened in the story.
What is a flashback
500
This is the term that means to give human like traits of qualities to nonhuman animals or objects
What is personification
500
This means word order
What is syntax
500
A long, uninterrupted speech from a single character
What is a monologue?
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