PLOT
CHARACTER
NARRATION
LANGUAGE
MISCELLANEOUS
100
The speed at which the story moves between exposition and action, or between cause and effect.
What is pacing.
100
Offred, the main character in The Handmaid's Tale
What is the PROTAGONIST.
100
This is the type of narrative voice in Hills Like White Elephants.
What is OBJECTIVE, or FLY ON THE WALL.
100
A concrete representation of a sense impression, feeling, or idea.
What is IMAGERY.
100
The time and place of a literary work that establishes its context.
What is SETTING.
200
A set of conflicts leading up to a climax.
What is RISING ACTION.
200
Lacking courage, Francis Macomber might be considered this.
What is an anti-hero.
200
When the narrator is a character in the story.
What is 1ST PERSON NARRATOR (or, Limited Omniscient)
200
An object that means more than itself.
What is A SYMBOL.
200
The atmosphere that pervades a work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience.
What is MOOD.
300
An interruption of the story to describe a moment that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
What is FLASHBACK.
300
This is a character who waits for things to happen.
What is A PASSIVE CHARACTER.
300
This is when the narrator doesn't tell the reader how to feel about the story or the characters.
What is INDIRECT NARRATION.
300
A writer's word choice.
What is DICTION.
300
A contrast between what is said and what is meant OR between what happens and what is expected to happen (in life or literature!)
What is IRONY.
400
A new understanding or realization that the narrator or a character experiences.
What is EPIPHANY.
400
This kind of character is capable of change.
What is DYNAMIC.
400
When it is clear that readers are supposed to learn a specific message or lesson from the story. The narration teaches readers how we are supposed to feel, react, or think.
What is DIDACTIC NARRATION.
400
The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning.
What is CONNOTATION.
400
A deep idea or issue about human nature explored in the story. The big idea or overall meaning.
What is THEME
500
At the end of The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood includes an epilogue that resolves some of the mysteries of Offred's story. This is the name for this type of resolution of the plot at the end of a work.
What is DENOUEMENT
500
A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
What is a FOIL.
500
The narrative voice in Up In Michigan.
What is 3rd PERSON or LIMITED OMNISCIENT.
500
The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line.
What is SYNTAX.
500
Anything beyond the specific words of a literary work that may be relevant to understanding the meaning.
What is CONTEXT!
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