Story
Poetic Meter
Fiction
Figures of Speech
Character
100

What are the three types of point of view?

1st person

2nd person

3rd person

100

The basic unit of rhythm, consisting of a specific combination of stressed and unstressed syllables:

A foot.

100

Summary or Scene: details at length with a relatively short period of time – necessary

Scene

100

"You hit the nail on the head with that response."

a. Idiom

b. Antithesis

c. Irony

Idiom

100

The _____ expresses the _____.

a. mental, morality 

b. outer, inner

c. psychic, physic 

d. inner, outer

b. outer, inner

200

The central character of a story:

Protagonist

200

A pause that occurs within a line (after disobedience): 

Caesura

200

Story or Plot: A series of events deliberately arranged to reveal their dramatic, thematic, and emotional significance.

Plot

200

"We need new blood to help us come up with ideas."

a. Apostrophe

b. Hyperbole

c. Metonymy

Metonymy

200

Give 4 examples of what dialogue does for characters and the story.

  • Reveals themselves
  • Advances the plot
  • Controls the pace
  • Foreshadows the future
  • Fills in the past
  • Establishes tone
  • Establishes mood
300

What are the three types of 3rd person point of view? 

Omniscient

Limited Omniscient

Objective omniscient


300

What is the structure of a limerick poem?

5 lines

AABBA

Lines 1,2,5: three metrical feet

Lines 3,4: two metrical feet


300

Flashback or Backstory: Any information about the past, whatever occurred before the plot begins, is revealed in dialogue, characters' thoughts, or in narration.

Backstory

300

"Put your heads together to solve this problem."

a. Synecdoche

b. Oxymoron

c. Euphemism

Synecdoche

300

Every character has to have a ____.

Desire

400

____ represents the obstacles to the protagonists' desires. 

Antagonist

400

What is the structure of a sonnet?

14 lines 

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 

Iambic pentameter

400

Conflicts can be presented through ____, ____, and ____.

Appearance, speech, and action.

400

"Don't be such a Scrooge!"

a. Paradox

b. Pun

c. Allusion

Allusion

400

Flat or stock character: defined by a single idea or quality, useful to fulfill a function, no need to know a lot about them. 

Flat character

500

Common story structure:

  • Conflict – beginning
  • Crisis – middle
  • Resolution – End
500

What is iambic pentameter?

5 sets of unstressed then stressed words.

500

Diction is...

a combination of vocabulary, words chosen, and syntax, the order in which they are used.

500

"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

a. Synecdoche 

b. Apostrophe

c. Metonymy

Apostrophe

500

What are the methods for presenting character? Direct and indirect.

Directly:

  • Image (appearance)
  • Voice (speech)
  • Action
  • Thought

Indirectly:

  • Telling or interpreting as an author