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Plot
Character
Setting and Theme
Point of View
Style & Other Devices
100
the series of events of a story in a unified sequence, sometimes in chronological order
What is plot?
100
the person, idea, belief, or thing in which the main character has a conflict with and may also be a main character
What is antagonist?
100
the time and place of a story
What is setting?
100
the vantage point from which the story if told
What is point of view?
100
the author's personal way of using language, looking at the world, and giving shape to literature
What is style?
200
the complication that includes crises and leads to the climax, or turning point
What is rising action?
200
Characters who are capable of change or grow into a new awareness of life, usually at the center of the story's action
What is dynamic?
200
the central idea which usually makes some statement or offers insight into the human condition. There may be more than one of these.
What is theme?
200
A story told directly to the reader, using "you"
What is second-person narration?
200
A narrative technique that combines the frightening with the ridiculous
What is grotesque style?
300
A struggle between opposing forces that can be internal or external (man vs. man, man vs. nature, etc.)
What is conflict?
300
the main character of the story, who is in conflict with someone or something. This is a major character.
What is protagonist?
300
the time of day and physical conditions in which the story is told.
What is physical setting?
300
Uses "he," "she," "it," and/or "they" to tell the story and does not participate in the action.
What is third-person point of view?
300
A narrative technique that eliminates all rhetoric and emotion by reducing the details to the barest essentials
What is minimalist style?
400
where the plot's complications are sorted out as the story reaches its resolution/ conclusion/ denouement.
What is falling action?
400
A character whose purpose is to highlight, through contrast, some aspect of a major character's personality.
What is foil?
400
the story's geographical location
What is geographical setting?
400
A narrator who lacks self-knowledge, is inexperienced, or may be insane.
What is an unreliable narrator?
400
The story's language, which may be formal or informal, and includes jargon or idioms.
What is diction?
500
breaks in the chronological sequence of events, usually looking back at something.
What is flashbacks?
500
Well-developed, three dimensional character who is prone to change
What is a round character?
500
the historical period in which the story takes place
What is historical setting?
500
A narrator who knows and follows the thoughts, feelings, and actions of one character
What is a limited omniscient narrator?
500
the deliberate playing down of the significance and emtional impact of events.
What is understatement?