Characterization
Point of View
Setting/Theme
Conflict
Plot
100
The main character of a story.
What is a protagonist?
100
Who is telling the story.
What is a narrator or point of view?
100
When and where the story takes place.
What is setting?
100
A character that struggles with another character.
What is character vs. character conflict?
100
Conflict develops, suspense builds, and we learn more about the characters.
What is rising action?
200
The character who challenges the main character.
What is an antagonist?
200
The narrator is also involved in the action of the story.
What is first person point of view?
200
What can change the character in some way?
What is setting?
200
A character that struggles with a force of nature.
What is character vs. nature conflict.
200
The turning point of the story; when the dynamic character changes.
What is climax?
300
A character that changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
300
The reader's actions are narrated.
What is second person point of view?
300
What should you use to describe a setting?
What are your five senses?
300
A character, or group of characters, fight against the society in which they live.
What is character vs. society conflict?
300
Loose ends are tied up, conflict(s) are being resolved, and the action starts to end?
What is falling action?
400
A character who does not change throughout the story.
What is a static character?
400
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of more than one character in the story.
What is third person omniscient?
400
What is a life lesson, meaning, moral, or a message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work?
What is theme?
400
A struggle an individual encounters with his/her inner thoughts, actions, and/or belief systems.
What is character vs. self conflict?
400
Cinderella lives with her evil step mother and her 2 step-sisters. What part of the story is this?
What is the exposition?
500
Cinderella's step mother is this type of character.
What is an antagonist or a static character?
500
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her back. She didn’t like discomfort; therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. To a large place, a comfortable place, an indoor place, and preferably a beautiful place. And that’s why she decided upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. What POV is this story being told in?
What is third person limited?
500
Give a specific example of a theme.
What is answers may vary.
500
Resisting the urge to cry when you stub your toe. What kind of conflict is this?
What is character vs. self conflict?
500
Shrek and Fiona live happily ever after. What part of the plot is this?
What is resolution or denouement?
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