Genres
Stories that have magic or magical creatures.
What is Fantasy?
What is Exposition?
POV told from the perspective of a character in the story.
What is First-Person Point of View?
These are the made-up people or animals in the story.
What are Characters?
The hero of the story.
What is a protagonist?
This genre focuses on a puzzling event, crime, or disappearance that needs solving.
What is Mystery?
These are the events and obstacles that complicate the plot.
What is Rising Action?
This POV is told directly to the reader, using the pronoun "you".
What is Second-Person Point of View?
The time and location of a story.
What is Setting?
The character who opposes the central character. Also known as the "villain".
What is Antagonist?
Works that are humorous or amusing by inducing laughter.
What is Comedy?
This is when the conflict comes to a peak.
What is Climax?
The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is Third-Person Limited?
This is the speaker, or the one telling the story.
What is a Narrator?
The problem in the story.
What is Conflict?
Type of literature typically written for readers aged 12-18.
What is Young Adult?
These events tie loose ends, and ease the tension.
What is Falling Action?
The narrator only reports what can be seens and heard, without access to characters' inner thoughts.
What is Third-Person Objective?
These are the events that make up a story.
What is Plot?
The lesson or message about life.
What is Theme?
This genre is within science fiction. It portrays oppressed societies.
What is Dystopian Fiction?
This gives closure to characters and readers.
What is Resolution?
The narrator has access to the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is Third-person Omniscient?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
A literary device used to suggest future events in a story.
What is Foreshadowing?