Types of Characters
The main character of the story
What is Protagonist?
The high point of a story
What is the Climax?
A story that portrays believable characters facing a true-to-life conflict in a realistic setting.
What is Realism?
The struggle in a story
Conflict
Giving a nonliving thing human characteristics.
What is Personification?
A character that has one or two traits
What is a Flat Character?
The resolution of a story, where the action begins to die down.
What is the Conclusion?
A story with comical characters and situations intended to amuse the reader
What is Humorous?
When the events of the story are hinted at earlier.
What is Foreshadowing?
When something stands in for something else
What is Symbolism?
A character that changes during the story
Dynamic Character
As the adventure begins, this designates the series of conflicts throughout the story
What is the Rising Action?
A story often set in the past that combines fictional characters with historical figures or events.
What is Historical Fiction?
Generalization about what the events in a story mean.
We understand the character through their actions and thoughts
What is Indirect Characterization?
What is antagonist?
Right after the high point of the story, but right before the conclusion
What is the Falling Action?
An imitation of another story or writing style, intended to comment on or poke fun at the original.
What is Parody?
A sudden realization or insight.
What is an Epiphany?
When the characters tell you what they're like.
What is Direct Characterization?
A character that does not change during the story
What is Static Character?
The beginning of the story where characters and ideas are introduced
What is Exposition?
A story often set in the future, in which actual or imagined science and technology play a central role.
What is Speculative?
When a work of literature stands for something outside of itself.
What is an Allegory?
The VERY end of a story.
What is the Resolution?