Sometimes a writer uses this device for suspense and to give the reader a hint of what is to come.
What is FORESHADOWING?
100
A character who shows all sides of himself/herself throughout a novel; has different emotions depending on the situation and responds like a real person.
What is a ROUND or THREE DIMENSIONAL CHARACTER.
100
These are the important events that lead up to the climax.
What is RISING ACTION?
100
This is the main or central character in a story.
What is the PROTAGONIST?
100
In the Novel The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo, the repeated symbolic windows and doors are known as this.
What is a MOTIF
200
Often a writer will use this in order to REPRESENT something else and to give the writing a deeper meaning.
What is SYMBOLISM?
200
a character's reason for behaving a certain way
What is MOTIVE?
200
A French word, Denouement, which literally means an untying of a knot, is that part of the novel when all of the pieces of the plot come together and are clarified at the end.
What is the RESOLUTION.
200
This is the character who goes against or serves as a stumbling block to the main character.
What is the ANTAGONIST?
200
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers is a good example of this.
What is ALLITERATION
300
Sometimes writers use metaphors, similies , or personification in their writing.
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.
300
The difference between skinny, slim, thin, and emaciated or plain-looking, homely, ugly
What is CONNOTATION?
300
This introduces the SETTING, MAIN CHARACTERS, AND a PROBLEM that arises.
What is the EXPOSITION.
300
A character, usually the Protagonist, who goes through a change from the beginning to the end of a novel.
What is DYNAMIC?
300
This great and awesome author wrote that classic fairy-tale EXPOSITIONELLA.
Who is S.G. ZEUGIRDOR
400
a SCENE that interrupts the action of a story to show a PREVIOUS event
What is a FLASHBACK?
400
The series of events within a story including the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
What is PLOT?
400
Usually the most intense part of a novel that happens directly after or during the CRISIS
What is the CLIMAX?
400
This character "shines a light" on the main character and helps us to understand or know him/her better.
What is the FOIL?
400
A student who behaves in a silly or nutty way.
What is a GOOFBALL?
500
The author's attitude toward a subject that conveys the mood through the writer's word choice or diction.
What is TONE?
500
A reference to an historical figure or document-- or to another work of literature such as a classic, the Bible, or Mythology
What is an ALLUSION
500
These are the important events that happen after the climax and lead up to the resolution.
What is FALLING ACTION
500
A character who does not change or grow in any way from the beginning to the end of a novel. He/she stays exactly the same throughout the story.