A comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The name given to the character(s) or elements that create conflict in a plot.
What is an antagonist?
100
A special quality that make a character different from other characters, examples include hair and eye color, height, weight, age, beliefs, likes, dislikes, opinions, behaviors
What are character traits?
100
It is when and where are story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
In vocabulary study, this is the term given to the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
A comparison between two unlike things not using the words "like" or "as." Often times, this figure of speech says that one thing is the other thing.
What is a metaphor?
200
The name given to a struggle that occurs within a character.
What is internal conflict?
200
It is the reason behind character action. It is why characters do things in the story.
What is character motivation?
200
The process of taking an selection and rewriting it in a shorter version, highlighting only the very important parts of it.
What is summarizing?
200
A word "puzzle" where the focus is on determining the relationships between words. The student determines the relationship of one pair of words and applies it to another incomplete pair of words.
What is an analogy?
300
A figure of speech in which non human things (an idea, object, or animal) are given human characteristics. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes
What is personification?
300
A struggle between a character and outside forces.
What is external conflict?
300
The name given to characters in a story that play a role, but do not assist in advancing the plot.
Who are minor characters?
300
The process of determining the meaning of unknown words by using the words around it.
What is using context clues?
300
BOOM! The formation of a word that imitates a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The name for a popular saying that is intended to be taken figuratively and not literally.
What is an idiom?
400
Of the 5 parts of the plot, this is the moment of maximum tension. Everything in the story builds up to it.
What is the climax?
400
The term for a character or group of characters who attempt to resolve conflict in a story.
What is a protagonist?
400
The name for the emotions connected to words.
What is connotation?
400
The name given to the most important message of the story. It is not written literally in the text. Instead, this lesson or message is obtained after reading the entire story and applying thought to it.
What is the theme?
500
The name given when a series of words in a row (or in close proximity) all begin with the same consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
500
It is the first of the 5 parts of the plot. Background is introduced here and major parts of the character, setting, and plot are introduced.
What is exposition?
500
If a story is told in this point of view, the narrator is not limited to explaining the thoughts and motivations of a single character. The narrator has an "all knowing" power to go into the thoughts and feelings more than one character.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
500
This is usually known as the most subjective and opinionated point of view that an author can use to tell a story.
What is first person point of view?
500
This is the term given to the attitude a writer gives toward a specific subject in his/her writing. It often can effect the mood of the story.