Types of Characters
Conflict
Testing Knowledge 2
Testing Knowledge #1
Common Standards Critical Words
100

The main character in a story.

What/Who is the protagonist?

100

The character has a conflict with weather.

What is man vs. nature?
100

Exactly true, rather than a figurative meaning.

What is literal?

100

A statement of the primary position taken by the speaker.

What is the thesis?

100

A comparison of two different things that are alike in some way.

What is an analogy?

200

A character who does not undergo any internal change throughout the story.

What is a static character?

200

The character has a conflict within themselves.

What is man vs. self or an internal conflict?

200

To express indirectly; hint; suggest

What is implied?

200

To explain the meaning of something.

What is interpret?

200
Language that cannot be taken literally simply because it is used to create a special effect or feeling.

What is figurative language?

300

A simple character we know very little about.

What is a flat character?

300

The character is struggling with a group of protestors.

What is man vs. society?

300

The word that means prejudice; favoring one item/side more than the other.

What is bias?

300

A short and amusing or interesting story about an incident or person.

What is an anecdote?

300

How the reader feels about the text while reading it.

What is mood?

400

A character who undergoes an internal change in the story.

Who/what is a dynamic character?

400

The character is struggling with an animal that plays a role in the story.  

What is man vs. man?

400

The meaning associated with a word or phrase; the emotional relationship a person has with a word.

What is connotation?

400

To combine to form a more complex product

What is synthesize?

400

The central idea of a work of literature.

What is theme?

500

A character the reader knows a lot about in the story.

Who/what is a round character?
500

The character is struggling with a conflict outside of himself/herself.

What is an external conflict?

500

The word that means to look at something carefully and pay close attention.

What is analyze?

500

The extra material added to the end of the book.

What is appendix?

500

The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or character.

What is tone?

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