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Characters
The Basics
Just Beyond
Miscellaneous
A Little Vocabulary
100
A character that does not change in the story.
What is a static character?
100
The time and place in which the events of the story occur.
What is the Setting?
100
Hints of what is to come in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
The author's decision about who the narrator is in the story.
What is point of view?
100
Unpleasant or unharmonious sound.
What is dissonance?
200
A character that changes in a significant way.
What is a dynamic character?
200
The stated or implied attitude of a writer toward the subject.
What is tone?
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the word like or as.
What is a simile?
200
An all-knowing narrator tells the story.
What is an Omniscient narrator?
200
A word spelled exactly like another word, but having a different meaning.
What is a homonym?
300
The central figure who is struggling with a problem.
Who is the protagonist?
300
The design or plan of action in the story.
What is the plot?
300
The object, event, or character that represents someone or something in the story.
What is a symbol?
300
A writer's choice of words.
What is diction?
300
A charitable donation to public causes.
What is philanthropy?
400
A person or force in conflict with the protagonist.
Who is the antagonist?
400
The author's underlying message about man or human nature.
What is the theme?
400
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but that have something in common.
What is a metaphor?
400
The author's uniquely individual way of communicating ideas.
What is style?
400
Occurring before a war.
What is antebellum?
500
A character in the story tells the story.
What is a first person narrator?
500
A basic struggle between the protagonist and the antagonist.
What is the conflict?
500
An indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event.
What is an allusion?
500
Contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exists or happens.
What is situational irony?
500
A generous spirit
What is magnanimous?