PLOT
CONFLICT
CHARACTER
Literary Terms
SYMBOLISM
100
Define plot.
What is the series of events making up a story.
100
Define conflict.
What is the problem in the story.
100
Define character.
What is any person, animal, or thing that is involved in the action of a piece of literature.
100
Define irony.
What is presence of a difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
100
Define symbol.
What is anything that stands for itself and something else.
200
Define exposition.
What is the beginning of the story; characters and setting are introduced.
200
Define internal conflict.
What is a conflict experienced within a character.
200
Define characterization.
What is the author's method of revealing characters to the reader.
200
Define setting.
What is the time and place in which a story occurs.
200
What does the Scarlet Ibis symbolize in the short story The Scarlet Ibis?
What is Doodle?
300
Define rising action.
What is the part of the story where the conflict is introduced to the reader leading up to the climax of the story.
300
Define external conflict.
What is any conflict experienced between a character and an outside force.
300
Define round character.
What is a well developed character.
300
Define point of view.
What is the perspective from which the story is narrated.
300
Provide a symbol of Zaroff's hunting ability.
What is the numerous animal heads found on the walls of his chateau.
400
Define climax.
What is the high point of action in a story.
400
Identify the conflict as internal or external. The narrator of The Scarlet Ibis desperately wishes his brother were more "normal".
What is internal.
400
Define dynamic character.
What is a character that undergoes some type of change within the story.
400
Define protagonist.
What is the main character in a story.
400
Why does James Hurst "paint" The Scarlet Ibis red? What does red symbolize in this short story?
What is death. In The Scarlet Ibis, the color red from the bleeding tree to the bird, symbolizes death.
500
Define falling action.
What is the events of the story between the climax and the resolution. Significant changes are evident in the protagonist.
500
Identify the following as either internal or external conflict. Rainsford must be hunted for three days by Zaroff in order to leave Ship Trap Island.
What is external, specifically man vs. man.
500
Is it possible for a character to be both round and flat or both dynamic and static?
What is no.
500
Define antagonist.
What is the person or force against whom the protagonist struggles.
500
In The Most Dangerous Game, what does Zaroff's game symbolize?
What is survival? Ability to reason? The hunt?
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