Characters
Story Parts
Who's telling the story?
Writing Techniques
Poetic Devices
100

Main character in story whom audience is rooting for.

Protagonist

100

This part of the story leads directly to the story's climax.

Rising Action

100

This narrator is also a character in the story.

First Person Narrator

100

This is when a story hints at what is going to happen later

Foreshadowing

100

The use of this poetic device includes the use of one (or two) specific word(s)

Simile

200

This character does not change throughout the story.

Static Character

200

This part of the story gives us the time, place, and characters.

Setting or Exposition

200

This narrator is not a character in the story, but rather an observer.

Third Person Narrator

200
This is when a story jumps back in time before eventually coming back to the present

Flashback

200

If any of your five senses are invoked through text, you've likely experienced this.

Imagery

300

A character in a story who has several personality traits. Seems like a real person.

Round character

300

This is the turning point for the conflict in a story.

Climax

300

This narrator really wants you to follow what is being said.

Second Person Narrator

300

This type of irony has nothing to do with opposites

Dramatic Irony

300

Jumbo shrimp is an example of this literary device.

Oxymoron

400

A character in a story with only 1 or 2 character traits.

Flat character

400

This is the part immediately after the climax.

Falling action

400

Rather than ask you who is telling the story, I could instead ask what is the story's _____________?

Point of View

400

This is a feeling of anxious or excited anticipation due to what might happen in a story

Suspense

400

This is just a group of lines in a poem

Stanza

500

A character who changes by the end of the story.

Dynamic character

500

This is when the story ends.

Resolution

500

The narrator of a story has a lot of control over these two literary devices that relate to emotions.

Tone and Mood

500

This is when something is used to represent an idea.

Symbolism

500

This is a reference to a famous (fictional or non-fictional) person, place, or thing from the present or the past.

Allusion