a traditional story that explains the actions of gods of heroes or the origins of the elements of nature
What is a myth?
100
Sequence of events in a story
What is the plot?
100
Most exciting moment of the story; turning point
What is the climax?
100
the outcome of the conflict of a story, when loose ends are wrapped up
What is the resolution?
200
something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition
What is a consequence?
200
A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
What is the exposition?
200
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
200
Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a sense of a character's personality to the reader.
What is characterization?
200
an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities
What is a choice?
300
Unity or logical connection within paragraphs
What is internal coherence?
300
Unity or logical connection between paragraphs with effective transitions and transitional devices
What is external coherence?
300
The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
What is a narrative?
300
Events that develop the plot of a story and lead to the climax
What is the rising action?
300
In writing, A point of view that recreates the perspective of a character. In film, a shot taken from a character's point of view, as though the camera lens is the character's eyes
What is subjective point of view?
400
A category or type of literature
What is genre?
400
Events after the climax, leading to the resolution
What is the falling action?
400
The use of symbols in a literary work
What is symbolism?
400
Central idea, message, or purpose of a work of literature
What is a theme?
400
words and phrases that create imagery by using the 5 senses
What are sensory details?
500
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
500
imaginative language that is not meant to be interpreted literally
What is figurative language?
500
All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
What is connotation?
500
narrator reports without comment, much as a camera would take a neutral point of view
What is objective point of view?
500
A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another