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The person telling the story.
Who is the narrator?
100
The struggle that takes place in a character's mind between two or more conflicting desires or emotions.
What is internal conflict?
100
The reader's educated guess or idea about what will happen in the future of a story.
What is a prediction?
100
The time, physical location, and social environment in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as.'
What is a simile?
200
The message the author conveys to readers through their text.
What is theme?
200
Hints or clues the author provides about the future of the text.
What is foreshadowing?
200
A piece of numerical data that is used as evidence to prove that something is true.
What is a statistic?
200
When the current events of the story are interrupted with past events to provide background information for the story.
What is flashback?
200
An object, place, name, or character that represents something more or other than itself.
What is a symbol?
300
The writer's attitude towards the subject of their text and their readers.
What is tone?
300
The author's method of developing a character where the author explicitly tells us the character's actions, thoughts, and dialogue.
What is direct characterization?
300
The feeling a text conveys to readers.
What is mood?
300
Different categories or types of literature.
What is genre?
300
The author or character's choice of words.
What is diction?
400
A question asked by the author or narrator to make a point that the audience is not supposed to respond to.
What is a rhetorical question?
400
The story the author tells to give historical background or information to the reader.
What is narrative?
400
An autobiographical text that focuses on a series of related, meaningful moments from the author's past.
What is a memior?
400
The position of the narrator in the story being told: first, third. . .
What is point of view?
400
A literary genre used to critique an idea through humor, absurdity, or ridiculousness so that it loses value.
What is satire?
500
A character who undergoes permanent change in personality, character, or outlook during the story.
What is a dynamic character?
500
When an event in the text turns out the opposite from what evidence in the text has lead you to expect.
What is irony?
500
When the author shows (rather than telling us directly) what characters are like.
What is indirect characterization?
500
A universal symbol such as a character or image that represents universal meanings and basic human experiences.
What is an archetype?
500
A short narrative of an interesting, unusual, or amusing event that helps communicate the author's main point.
What is an anecdote?
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