Literary Terms
Define flashback in your own words.
What is... a device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past.
Something that is clean.
What is pristine?
What is introduced in the exposition?
What is... characters, setting, and the main conflict are typically introduced.
Describe the flashback that happens within the story.
What is... when Balboa discovers the South Sea?
To stick out.
What is protruding?
Define simile in your own words.
What is...two essentially dissimilar objects or concepts are expressly compared with one another using ”like” or “as”.
To yield or give away.
What is to cede?
How would you describe the climax as?
What is... the peak of the story, a major event occurs in which the main character faces a major enemy, fear, challenge, or other source of conflict. The most action, drama, change, and excitement occurs here.
Who is Balboa's greatest threat?
Who are... the Spanish rivals?
The name of the plot structure pyramid.
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
Define metaphor in your own words.
What is... Makes a comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as”.
A disagreement or conflict.
What is discord?
Describe the rising action.
What is... the main character is in crisis and events leading up to facing the conflict begin to unfold. The story becomes complicated.
Which character traits would you describe Balboa as?
What is... ambitious, arrogant, etc.?
Why does Balboa so preoccupied with his self image?
What is... he wants to be seen as a powerful leader?
Define allusion in your own words.
What is... a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.
Food supply.
What is provision?
Describe falling action.
What is... the story begins to slow down and work towards its end, tying up loose ends.
What does Balboa do to the converts?
What is... he kills them with dogs?
Difference in quality.
What is distinction?
Define irony in your own words.
What is... contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true.
To take the place of.
What is supplanted?
Describe the resolution.
What is... also known as the denouement, the resolution is like a concluding paragraph that resolves any remaining issues and ends the story.
Why does Balboa think about Cristobal Colon, Vespucci, and the Pizarro brothers?
What is... because he considers himself a great explorer?
Define in media res.
What is... the story starts in the middle of the action?