Plot
Figurative Language
Reading Terms
Vocab
Point of View
100
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
100
Main character in a literary story
What is protagonist?
100

The lesson or moral of a story.

What is theme?

100
puzzled; bewildered; confused
What is perplexed?
100

In this point of view, the narrator is a character in the story; uses "I"

What is first person?

200
The turning point in a story
What is climax?
200
character that is source of conflict for the protagonist
What is antagonist?
200
group of lines from a poem; similar to a paragraph
What is a stanza?
200
to anger or enrage
What is outraged?
200

In this point of view the narrator uses the pronouns "they", "he", and "she".

What is third person?

300
Events that happen after the climax
What is falling action?
300
comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
300

The perspective from which a story is told.

What is point of view?

300
mysterious; weird feeling
What is eerie?
300

This point of view uses the pronoun "you".

What is second person POV?
400
time and place of a story or passage
What is setting?
400
phrase where non-human characteristics are given human characteristics "The tree cried when the rain hit its branches."
What is personification?
400
author's attitude toward the subject of his writing
What is tone?
400
gloomy state of mind; depression
What is melancholy?
400

Night was written from this point of view.

What is First Person?

500
technique that keeps the reader guessing what will happen next
What is suspense?
500

When a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

500
the feeling you have when reading a passage
What is mood?
500
sentimental yearning for the happiness of a previous time or place
What is nostalgic?
500

This third person point of view is when the narrator knows everything about all the characters' internal thoughts.

What is Third person omniscient?

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