What Happened?
What's the Problem?
Who Are You?
Who Says?
What Did You Say?
100
The action or sequence of events in a story
What is PLOT?
100
The dramatic struggle between two forces in a story
What is CONFLICT?
100
The main character or hero of the story
What is PROTAGONIST?
100
Who tells the story and how it is told
What is POINT OF VIEW?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”
What is a SIMILE?
200
The turning point; the most intense moment
What is CLIMAX?
200
The main character struggles with another person or with an outside force
What is EXTERNAL CONFLICT?
200
The person or thing working against the main character
What is ANTAGONIST?
200
A character in the story tells the story
What is FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW?
200
An animal, object or idea is described as if it were a person
What is PERSONIFICATION?
300
The conclusion; the tying together of all of the threads
What is RESOLUTION?
300
The main character struggles with opposing ideas or feelings within his or her own mind
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
300
The author tells the reader about a character--physical appearance or personality
What is DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?
300
A person outside of the story tells the story but does not know everything
What is THIRD PERSON LIMITED POINT OF VIEW?
300
The use of words to create a certain picture in the reader’s mind
What is IMAGERY?
400
The series of conflicts in the story that lead to the climax
What is RISING ACTION?
400
External or Internal: “the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face”
What is EXTERNAL CONFLICT?
400
The reader has to figure out details about a character
What is INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?
400
A person outside of the story tells the story and knows everything
What is THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT POINT OF VIEW?
400
The reader or audience knows something that at least one of the characters does not
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
500
The start of the story; gives background information
What is EXPOSITION?
500
External or Internal: “I will not lose my nerve. I will not.”
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
500
Example: “Nonsense,” laughed Rainsford…”The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees.”
What is INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?
500
“The Most Dangerous Game” is written from this point of view
What is THIRD PERSON LIMITED POINT OF VIEW?
500
Something other than what is expected happens
What is SITUATIONAL IRONY?
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