The person or force working against the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
100
A character that does not change in a story
What is a static character?
100
Most suspenseful part of the story; the turning point of the story in which the reader wonders what will happen next
What is the climax?
100
Compares to unlike things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
100
The standpoint from which a story is told
What is point of view?
200
When the author directly tells you what a character is like
What is direct characterization?
200
A well-developed character; described by the author so the reader has a good picture of what the character is really like
What is a round character?
200
The part of a story in which the loose ends of the plot are tied up and remaining questions are answered (usually at the end)
What is the resolution?
200
An expression that is not literally true
What is an idiom?
200
Conflict that takes place within a character's mind (like a decision the character has to make)
What is internal conflict?
300
The personality of a character
What is a character trait?
300
A character that is not very well-developed by the author
What is a flat character?
300
Background information introduced in the beginning of the story
What is the exposition?
300
Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman or nonliving thing as if it were human
What is personification?
300
A struggle between characters or between opposing forces
What is conflict?
400
The main character in a story
What is the protagonist?
400
A character that changes in a story
What is a dynamic character?
400
Series of conflicts that lead to the climax
What is the rising action?
400
Compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
400
This point of view is when one of the story's characters, using the personal pronoun "I," is telling the story; the reader only knows what that one character knows
What is first person?
500
When the author shows rather than tells the reader what a character is like
What is indirect characterization?
500
The people or animals that take part in the action of a story
What are characters?
500
Events of a story that take place after the climax
What is the falling action?
500
Big exaggeration; usually with humor
What is hyperbole?
500
Conflict between a character and an outside force (like another character, a group of characters, or a force of nature)