Plot
Conflict
Character & POV
Other Vocab Terms
Figurative Language
100

The series of events in a story

What is Plot?

100
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is Conflict?
100

The most important characters in literary works.

What is the protagonist?

100

What are tone and mood?

Tone: An author's attitude toward their subject or audience, created through word choice and sentence structure.

Mood: The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as.

What is a simile?

200
The part of the story where everything is tied together
What is the resolution?
200
A conflict that occurs because of a storm such as a hurricane, a tornado, or an earthquake
What is character versus nature?
200

The narrator is a character inside the story who uses pronouns like I, me, my, and we.

What is First-Person POV?

200

Persuading through reasoning, facts, statistics, and logical structure.

What is Logos?

200

This type of figurative language is a when the word imitates the sound.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

Introduces the characters, setting, and normal life

What is exposition?

300
A conflict where one person is battling against another
What is Character vs. Character?
300

The narrator addresses the reader directly using the pronoun “you”. 

What is Second-Person POV?

300

Appealing to the audience's emotions, values, or beliefs to stir feelings like sympathy, anger, or joy.

What is pathos?

300

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

What is personification?

400
The most exciting and intense moment in a story
What is the climax?
400

Involves an individual who struggles against the culture or rules that surrounds them

What is character versus society?

400

A person, group, or force that opposes the main character

What is an antagonist?

400

The choice and use of words in writing

What is diction?

400

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

500
Occurs when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
500

A conflict that takes place within a person

What is character versus self?

500

An outside narrator who is not a character in the story tells the events using pronouns like he, she, they, and it.

What is a Third-Person POV?

500

Establishing trust, authority, or credibility to make the audience believe you.

What is ethos?

500

The use of objects, characters, colors, or actions to represent abstract ideas, feelings, or concepts beyond their literal meaning.

What is symbolism?

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