a comparison between two seemingly different things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100
This terms describes the turning point of the story.
What is climax?
100
This character only has one or two traits that we know about. His/her character may be summed up in one or two sentences.
What is flat character?
100
The planting of clues which serve to help the reader predict the outcome of the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The three different types of conflict are?
What is external, internal, supernatural
200
a type of imagery in which inanimate (non-living) things or ideas are animate (living) characteristics.
What is personification?
200
Event or situation which begins the action of the plot; introduces the source of conflict.
What is initial incident?
200
This is a character who is designed to contrast in some way with another character.
What is character foil?
200
Interruption in the flow of a story to portray an incident that occurred in the past.
What is flashback?
300
No definite conclusion is reached. The story ends, but not in terms of resolved conflict.
What is indeterminite ending?
300
a comparison between two seemingly different things that surprised the reader by saying one thing actually is something else.
What is a metaphor?
300
Part of a story where complications and conflicts are explained; events are unraveled; loose ends tied up.
What is falling action?
300
This character is complex and many-sided. He/She may have contradictory characteristics. He/She seems more real and "human" to the reader.
What is round character?
300
An expression or phrase peculiar to a language and often having a meaning other than its literal or logical meaning.
What is an idiom?
400
God from a machine: an artificial, contrived, or coincidental ending, usually unsatisfactory for the reader.
What is deus ex machina?
400
Descriptive writing which evokes (brings forth) the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, or feeling.
What is imagery?
400
Establishes the setting, introduces the characters, informs the reader of antecendent action or information.
What is exposition?
400
This person is basically the same at the end of the story as he/she was at the beginning. Character or personality reamins the same.
What is static character?
400
a concrete thing representing some abstract idea and thus taking on a meaning far beyond its ordinary meaning.
What is symbolism or a symbol?
500
What are the four different types of stories? (Story of ______)
What is plot, character, theme, setting
500
a figure of speech meaning a deliberate and wild exaggeration to emphasize a point or create humour.
What is hyperbole?
500
The French word for resolution?
What is denoument?
500
This person undergoes some permanent change in some aspect of his/her personality, character, or outlook on life. The change may be large or small, for better of for worse, but it must be something important and basic.
What is dynamic character?
500
A brief reference to another literary work, a person, place, or event from the past of which the author assumes the reader has knowledge.