Elements of a Story
What is the struggle between two opposing forces.
Conflict
The beginning/foundation of a story
Exposition
A comparison using like or as.
Simile
Fiction
What is any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact?
A two-dimensional character that doesn't change.
Flat/Static
Where a literary work takes place.
Setting
The related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
Rising Action
The repetition of the same sound or letter.
Alliteration
Literary Element
What is the essential techniques used in literature (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme)?
A character that has depth and complexity?
Round/Dynamic
An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.
Theme
The highest level of action in a story.
Climax
A device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past ?
Flashback
Characterization
What is the method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities ?
Tells conclusive details about a character to the reader with little or no ambiguity ?
Direct Characterization
What is the sequence of events that make up a story?
Plot
All the series of events following the climax.
Falling Action
Hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration?
Inference
What is a judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct statement in a text ?
Reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly?
Indirect Characterization
What is a recurring subject, theme, idea?
Motif
Where all the loose ends are tied up/denouement.
Resolution
A device to develop characters, frame storylines, and help create associations to well-known works ?
Allusion
Symbolism
What is any narrator who misleads readers, either deliberately or unwittingly ?
Unreliable Narrator