Story Parts
This is the problem in a story.
What is conflict?
This is the main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
This is a comparison using “like,” “as,” or “than.”
What is a simile?
This is the angle from which the narrator tells the story.
What is point of view?
These are words that have similar meanings, like “bravery” and “courage.”
What are synonyms?
This is the part at the beginning where characters and setting are introduced and the conflict is set up.
What is exposition?
This character works against the main character and is often the villain.
What is the antagonist?
This is a comparison of two unlike things without using “like,” “as,” or “than.”
What is a metaphor?
This point of view uses “I,” “me,” and “my,” and the narrator is the main character.
What is first person?
These are words that have opposite meanings, like “happiness” and “sadness.”
What are antonyms?
This is the event that starts the conflict.
What is the initiating event?
This kind of character does not change much during
What is a static character?
This is an extreme exaggeration, like saying someone assigned “a million pages of reading.”
What is hyperbole?
This point of view uses “he,” “she,” and “they” and follows only one character’s thoughts and feelings.
What is third person limited?
This is the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
These are the events that make the conflict worse or more complicated as the story moves toward the climax.
What is rising action?
This kind of character grows and changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
This gives human characteristics to nonhuman things, like “the snow mocked us from outside the window.”
What is personification?
This point of view uses “he,” “she,” and “they” and can show the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is third person omniscient?
This is the memory hint for this word: “dictionary definition denotation.”
What is denotation?
This is the highest point of tension in the story, when the main character must face the main conflict.
What is the climax?
In The Crossover, this character is a static character because he stubbornly refuses to change his habits or go to the doctor.
Who is Chuck Bell (the dad)?
This kind of language uses non-literal words or phrases to create an interesting or powerful effect. Similes and metaphors are examples of it.
What is figurative language?
This is a universal lesson, moral, or message a reader can learn from a story, like “Take your time and focus on your goal.”
What is theme?
This type of language uses descriptive words to paint a detailed picture, like describing massive gray clouds and long yellow grass rippling in the wind.
What is imagery?