Narrative Elements
Author's Craft
Plot
Figurative Language
Other Narrative Terms
100

The central struggle or tension within a narrative that shapes the plot and drives the action forward.


What is conflict?


100
A technique used by the author in which vivid language is used to describe details of the story.
What is imagery?
100
The moment of highest drama and tension in a narrative, in which the main conflict is fully confronted and resolved.
What is the climax?
100
A simile

What is a comparison that is made between two unrelated things using the words "like" or "as"?

100
The term we use to describe the main character in a narrative; the person with whom the reader most closely relates and feels sympathetic toward.
What is the protagonist?
200
The process that involves letting a reader know who the people in the story are and what they are like.
What is character development
200
A technique used by the author in which clues in the text hint toward something that will happen later in the story. 
What is foreshadowing?
200
The first part of the plot line where the setting is established and characters are introduced.
What is the exposition?
200
A metaphor

What is a comparison that is made between two unrelated things that does NOT use the words "like" or "as"?

200
A character in a narrative who is opposed to the protagonist or protagonists; a villain.
What is the antagonist
300

The term we use to describe the main character in a narrative; the person with whom the reader most closely relates and feels sympathetic toward.

What is the protagonist?

300
A technique used by the author in which an unexpected event occurs, often the opposite of what the reader expects to happen.
What is irony?
300
The point in the plot line where the main conflict is introduced and the tension begins to build.
What is the rising action?
300
The clouds were like ice-cream castles in the sky. 

What is a simile?

300
The emotional voice that an author brings to a narrative.
What is the tone?
400
The angle or perspective from which a story is told.
What is point-of-view.
400
A technique used by the author (such as a cliffhanger) to make the reader feel a sense of anticipation or worry. 
What is suspense?
400
The point in the story arc where the characters have faced the main conflict and events begin falling into place.
What is the falling action?
400
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.

What is personification?

400
The emotions that a story makes a reader feel (dark, warm, foreboding, peaceful, uneasy, etc).
What is the mood?
500
A main idea or message that is presented by the author in various ways throughout a narrative.
What is theme?
500
A characterization technique used by the author in which characters are developed through their dialogue and actions.

What is indirect characterization?

500
The final step in the story arc in which all loose ends of the narrative are tied up and the theme of the story is revealed.
What is the resolution?
500
An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is literally true.

What is hyperbole?

500

The definition of internal conflict. 

A problem faced by the character in which a difficult decision must be made or an emotional struggle affects the character's actions. 

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