Figures of Speech
Plot
Narraration
Setting
Theme
100
a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect
What is a figure of speech?
100
The events that make up the ideas in writing
What is plot?
100
The person that tells a story
What is the narrator?
100
The place where a story occurs
What is setting?
100
The underlying message of a piece of literature
What is theme?
200
Struggle between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and antagonist
What is conflict?
300
Another name for figures of speech
What is figurative language?
300
When the characters and conflict are introduced in a story.
What is exposition?
400
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is an oxymoron?
400
Everything from the initiation of conflict to the climax in a story
What is rising action?
500
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
What is an idiom?
500
A French term used to describe the ending, or the resolution of a story
What is denouement?
500
A narrator that forces you to read between the lines, usually wants empathy, and is likely too immature to understand what is happening
What is an unreliable narrator?
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