Plot Stages
Irony
Foreshadowing
Root Words
Synonyms and Antonyms
100
This is the stage of plot where the setting and characters are introduced.
What is exposition?
100
This is a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually occurs.
What is irony?
100
This is the literary term for when an author hints at what is to happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
This word contains the Latin root luxus. distress elegant luxurious ruffled
What is luxurious?
100
Words that have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
200
This is the stage of plot that reveals the final outcome and ties up loose ends.
What is the resolution?
200
This is a type of irony when what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
What is verbal irony?
200
This is what foreshadowing creates.
What is suspense?
200
This word contains the Latin root radio. ancient radiant confident statement
What is radiant?
200
Words that have similar meanings.
What are synonyms?
300
This is the stage of plot where suspense builds and the conflict intensifies.
What is rising action?
300
This is a type of irony when readers know more than what the characters know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
This is an example of foreshadowing in A Sound of Thunder.
What is don't step off the path? or What is we guarantee nothing except the dinosaurs?
300
This word contains the Latin root velum. lovely veiled irrelevantly conversation
What is veiled?
300
This word is synonym for glad.
What is happy?
400
This stage of plot eases suspense and reveals the outcome of the story's climax.
What is falling action?
400
This is a type of irony when a character or reader expects one thing to happen but something else happens instead.
What is situational irony?
400
This is an example of foreshadowing in The Most Dangerous Game.
What are gunshots? or What is sailors have a curious dread of the place?
400
This word contains the Latin root vario. variation persistent reasury objections
What is variation?
400
This word is an antonym for happy.
What is sad?
500
This stage of plot is the turning point and the moment of greatest suspense in a story.
What is climax?
500
This is an example of situational irony in The Gift of the Magi.
What is they both sacrifice their prized possessions to buy gifts for each other.
500
This is a literary technique in which authors stop the action of a story and describe something that happened at an earlier point.
What is flashback?
500
A word that contains the Latin root aud meaning hear.
What is auditory, audience, or auxiliary?
500
This word is synonym for intricate.
What is complex?
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