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Clash of the Conflicts
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Literary Devices Lab
Vocabulary Vault
100

This introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation of a story

What is the exposition?

100

This is a type of conflict when a character struggles with their own thoughts, values, or beliefs.

What is man vs. self?

100

This perspective is when the story is told by a character in the story.

What is 1st person point of view?

100

This is a contradiction between what happens and what is expected.

What is irony?

100

This is making an educated guess about a character based on how he/she thinks, acts, or speaks

What is an inference?

200

This is the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

200

This is when a character struggles with an outside force.

What is external conflict?

200

This is the act of creating and developing a character.

What is characterization?

200
This is a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art.

What is an allusion?

200

This is anything that stands for or represents something else.

What is a symbol?

300

This is the sequence of events in a story.

What is plot?

300

This is a type of conflict when a character struggles against the forces of nature.

What is man vs. nature?

300

This is the perspective of the narrator who knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks.

What is 3rd person omniscient?

300

This is the use of symbols.

What is symbolism?

300

This is when writers often sequence events in narratives in the order they actually happen.

What is chronological order?

400

This is the struggle between opposing forces.

What is conflict?

400

This is when a character struggles within their own mind.

What is internal conflict?

400

This is the perspective of the narrator outside of the story. He uses "he" and "she" to refer to the characters.

What is 3rd person point of view?

400

This is the feeling created in a reading by the writing.

What is mood?

400

This is a one-sided argument.

What is a biased argument?

500

This is the time and place of the action in a story.

What is setting?

500

This is a type of conflict when a character struggles against another character.

What is man vs. man?

500

This is a conversation between characters.

What is dialogue?

500

This is making a comparison between two or more things.

What is an analogy?

500

This is the writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.

What is tone?