The struggle or problem between two characters or an outside force.
What is conflict?
100
A character who remains throughout the story.
What is static?
100
The story is told by a narrator who is a character in the story.
What is first person?
100
Hints or clues that suggest events that will occur later in a story
What is FOREshadowing?
100
When a character says one thing but means another.
What is verbal irony?
200
The part of a story or drama that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation
What is the exposition?
200
A character who undergoes a change (usually internal) as the plot unfolds.
What is dynamic?
200
An observer narrator who tells only what one character sees and knows; this narrator is not a character in the work of literature and does not use first-person pronouns in the narration
What is Third Person LIMITED?
200
a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time
What is flashback?
200
An underlying message about life or human nature that a writer is communicating in a work
What is theme?
300
The he part of the story where characters are developed and conflicts build to the climax.
What is the rising action?
300
A character who is not highly developed and may only have one personality trait
What is flat?
300
An all-knowing third-person; this type of narrator can reveal to readers what the characters think and feel
What is Third Person Omniscient?
300
The reason why a character may think or act like he/she does in the story
What is motivation?
300
A contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually happens
What is situational irony?
400
A point in the story when the main conflict is about to be resolved. A turning point.
What is the climax?
400
A character who has a variety of traits and many sides to his personality.
What is round?
400
The voice becomes you-directed.
What is second person.
400
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
400
A person, place or object that stands for something beyond itself - necessary to create metaphors.
What is symbolism?
500
The action that occurs after the climax and shows the results of the action in the climax. It also helps the story come to conclusion.
What is falling action?
500
TWO terms in order:
The main character
The character or force with the main character struggles.
What is protagonist and antagonist?
500
The narrator does not tell the reader directly the thoughts or feelings of any of the characters.
What is Third Person Objective?
500
An attitude, felling or image associated with a particular word.