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100
The stage of plot that informs the reader of the characters, the setting, and beginning situation.
What is the exposition?
100
The main character that struggles with a conflict.
What is a Protagonist?
100
A discrepancy in a work of literature that provides a twist or a surprise in a story.
What is Irony?
100
The vantage from which a story is told. The source of the narration.
What is Point of View?
100
The term for different classifications of literature or art.
What is Genre?
200
The stage of plot in which conflict is introduced.
What is the Rising Action?
200
A character who opposes the main character.
What is an Antagonist?
200
The type of irony in which a character says the opposite of what he means.
What is Verbal Irony?
200
The point of view in which the narrator says "I" or "me" and is a character in the story.
What is First Person point of view?
200
Developing a character by describing his characteristics overtly.
What is Direct Characterization?
300
The stage of plot in which the conflicts reach the highest emotional intensity.
What is the Climax or Turning Point?
300
A character who contrasts with another character.
What is a Foil?
300
The type of irony in which the audience knows something that a character does not. The character is surprised.
What is Dramatic Irony?
300
The point of view in which the narrator is outside the story but keeps our information narrow.
What is Third Person limited?
300
Developing a character by showing him in action and giving his speech and thoughts.
What is Indirect Characterization?
400
The stage of plot in which the conflicts begin to resolve and move toward a conclusion.
What is the Falling Action?
400
A character who is well developed and demonstrates the ability to change.
What is a Round or Dynamic character?
400
The type of irony in which the reader does not expects what happens. The reader is surprised.
What is Irony of Situation?
400
The point of view in which the narrator is outside the story and can take us into any character or any location in a god-like fashion.
What is Third Person Omniscient point of view?
400
Narrative prose fiction that can be read in one sentence.
What is a Short Story?
500
The stage of plot in which the conflicts are finally resolved and a new equilibrium is achieved.
What is the Resolution or Denouement?
500
A character who is not well developed and who does not demonstrate an ability to change or grow.
What is a Flat or Static character?
500
The strategies an author uses to develop a character in a work of literature.
What is Characterization?
500
The term for depicting a non-human as though it were human in a work of literature.
What is Personification?
500
Something that retains its own meaning while standing for something else.
What is a Symbol?
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