Who is telling the story?
What literary term can be defined as the person telling the story?
What is the narrator?
The stage of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term? Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"...
What is a symbol or symbolism?
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
The stage of the plot where the action really begins is known as what?
What is the rising action?
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
This is the term to describe writer's attitude toward their audience and/or the manner in which they write a particular scene or story in its entirety.
What is tone?
When a character in the story tells the story using the pronoun "I", this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
The stage of plot just after the climax when readers can catch their breaths and the action slows down and details begin falling into place?
What is the falling action?
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events and action in a literary work?
What is the plot?
When something non-human or inactive is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
An author's specific way of writing, word choices, and expressions describes what literary term?
What is style?
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint, only from one character's perspective, this is what point of view?
What is third person limited point of view?
The stage of plot when all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?
What is the resolution?
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is sensory details?
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is irony?
A character who shows only one trait (a sly fox or happy-go-like best friend) is known as what?
What is a flat character?
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, knowing what all the characters think and feel, this is known as which point of view?
What is third person omniscient point of view?
(omniscient = all-knowing)
The stage of plot where the characters, setting, and early hint of conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
The central message or insight about life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme?
(In literature, an author usually seeks to convey more than one theme - lessons and ideas they want us to think about and act on.)
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
A character who shows many different traits -- faults as well as virtues (Spider Man and Superman) is known as what?
What is a round character?