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Characters
Plot
Literary and Sound Devices
What the Author Wants Us to Know
Potpourri
100
This is the main character of the story. He does not have to be the good guy.
What is the Protagonist.
100
The part of the plot in which the tension builds. Background circumstances, character decisions, character flaws, and other various elements all add to the tension.
What is the rising action.
100
A word that imitates the sound it describes.
What is onomatopoeia.
100
This is the lesson or principle the author wants to teach us in a story or fable.
What is the moral.
100
The twisting or foiling of expectations.
What is irony.
200
This is a person or force that opposes the main character of a story. Some examples are death, nature, and illness.
What is the Antagonist.
200
What is the part of the plot called when all the major conflict has been resolved and there is (usually) a sense of completion?
What is the resolution or the deonouement.
200
A comparison between two unlike things (usually using is or was).
What is a metaphor.
200
This point of view raises a red flag that we should not trust our narrator.
What is first person.
200
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole.
300
This is what we call the way an author creates, develops, or reveals a character in a story. Remember, in "Of Hearts and Hands," Ms. Fairchild is developed through the use of sight imagery (her facial expressions and eyes reveal what she is thinking).
What is characterization.
300
This is when the protagonist and antagonist finally come head to head. It is the highest point of tension in a story.
What is the climax.
300
When human attributes are given to something not human.
What is personification.
300
This is the main or underlying meaning in a work.
What is the theme.
300
The repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance.
400
This is someone who doesn't change throughout a story. We can always expect them to be the same.
What is a static character.
400
This is the very beginning of the story, where the reader receives all of the necessary background information.
What is the exposition.
400
The five senses are used to create this in a work of literature.
What is imagery.
400
When the author gives us hints of what is going to happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing.
400
What kind of character goes through a fundamental change by the end of a story?
What is a dynamic character.
500
True or False: There is only one antagonist in any given story.
False - There can be many antagonists in a story. It depends on how many people/things are opposing the protagonist!
500
This part of the plot is where we find out the consequences of the climax.
What is the falling action.
500
The repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words.
What is consonance.
500
The point of view in which the author speaks directly to us. We most often see it when authors want us to change something within ourselves (such as in a self-help book).
What is second person.
500
This is the type of irony used when the audience knows what is going to happen, but the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony.