Plot Elements
Unit 1 Literature Terms
Unit 1 Literature Terms (II)
Name that Text Structure
Unit 2 Terms
100
Time and location of a story
What is setting?
100
a struggle within a character
What is internal conflict?
100
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader
What is mood?
100

The author lists events in the TIME order in which they happen

What is chronological order?
100
The perspective from which the story is told
What is point of view?
200
The turning point in the story - The point of maximum interest - The point when power changes hands
What is climax?
200
Three common types of external conflict
What are character vs. character, character vs. society, and character vs. nature?
200
The message or lesson an author reveals through his/her writing
What is theme?
200

The author lists events in step-by-step order

What is sequence?
200
An author's attitude toward a subject matter
What is tone?
300
The part of the plot that introduces characters, setting, and conflict
What is the exposition?
300
Occurs when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story
What is foreshadowing?
300
Type of characterization in which the author tells the reader what a character is like
What is direct characterization?
300

The author arranges events in a way that emphasizes how an event(s) leads to another event(s)

What is cause and effect?
300
How an author writes
What is style?
400
When the consequences of the climax are revealed - Also, loose ends of the story are tied up and tension begins to ease (Double points for the french term!)
What is falling action?

What is denouement?

400
A feeling of growing tension and excitement
What is suspense?
400
Type of characterization in which the author shows the reader what the character is like - the reader must infer character traits
What is indirect characterization?
400

The author explains how two or more people, places, events, etc. are similar and/or how they are different

What is compare and contrast?
400
Name and define the two main types of third person point of view
1.) What is third person limited (narrator is not a character and has limited knowledge)? 

2.) What is third person omniscient (narrator is not a character and has complete knowledge)?

500
Occurs during the rising action

What are complications - which result from characters struggling with conflict? 


500
Two main types of characterization
What are direct and indirect characterization? 
500
The part of the plot when the story's central problem is solved, leaving the reader with a sense of story completion
What is resolution?
500

The author provides a suggestion, offers evidence as support of that suggestion, and responds to counter arguments

What is proposition and support?
500
Name and define the three main types of point of view

1.) What is first person (narrator is a character in the story and uses 1st person pronouns)? 2.) What is second person (typically uses you and written as directions)? 3.) What is third person (narrator is not a character in the story and uses 3rd person pronouns)?


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