A character who grows or changes through the story.
What is dynamic?
100
The voice or character that tells the story.
What is the narrator?
100
The feeling a reader gets from a text.
What is mood?
100
The struggle between two opposing characters, forces, or emotions.
What is the conflict?
200
This is the thing that starts off the conflict.
What is the inciting incident?
200
A character who stays the same through the story.
What is static?
200
This narrator uses "I" or "me" and is a character in the story.
What is 1st person point of view?
200
An author's attitude, stated or implied, toward their subject.
What is tone?
200
The main character in a text; affected deeply by the conflict.
What is the protagonist?
300
These events build from the conflict to move the plot forward.
What is rising action?
300
Characters are clearly described for the reader with no inferring necessary.
What is direct characterization?
300
This narrator is an outsider who can report only what s/he sees or hears, not anyone's thoughts.
What is third person objective?
300
This helps the reader understand the mood/emotional response of a story, and its genre, by indicating time and place.
What is setting?
300
The character or force which opposes or is in conflict with the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
400
The events after the climax that wrap up any loose ends.
What is falling action?
400
This character is similar to a dynamic character, in that they are complex and feel like a real person because they can change and grow.
What is a round character?
400
This narrator is an outsider who can report what they see and hear AND can see into the mind of ONE character.
What is third person limited?
400
The lesson learned from a story; the author's message to take away.
What is theme?
400
These are at least four different possible types of conflict.
What is person vs person, person vs self, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs fate, person vs unknown/supernatural?
500
The background information about characters, setting, etc, so that the reader understands what is going on and is ready to get into the world of the story.
What is exposition?
500
Authors use these four techniques to portray characters in indirect characterization, and the reader must infer to understand the character fully.
What is WATO (Words, Actions, Thoughts, Opinions of Others)?
500
This narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can see into the minds of more than one character.
What is third person omniscient?
500
Something that has a meaning in itself but also a larger meaning. For example, the American flag.
What is a symbol?
500
This is the result of the crisis in which the outcome of the conflict is finally known/predicted. Typically the moment of highest interest/emotion.