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Conflicts
Figurative Lang.
Plot
Literary Devices
Definitions
100
A scientist is chasing tornados, trying to find out more about them while trying not to get killed by them.
What is Character vs. Nature?
100
The snow looked like a soft, white blanket covering the land.
What is a simile?
100
It is the time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
100
This is when the author gives a hint or clue about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
A repetition of the beginning sound in several words in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
200
This is the type of conflict found in The Three Little Pigs.
What is Character vs. Character?
200
The heat punched us in the face as we left the nice cool building and walked out into the summer sun.
What is personification?
200
This is the longest part of the plot, where characters and conflict are developed.
What is rising action?
200
Examples of these would be a handshake, the color black, or a country's flag.
What are symbols?
200
the events of a story
What is the plot?
300
This is the type of conflict where a character has an important decision to make or feels two opposite emotions.
What is Character vs. Self?
300
The class took forever to answer the question.
What is hyperbole?
300
This is where the setting, characters, and conflict are first shown to the reader in the story.
What is the introduction?
300
This is when an author has a character say something, but it can have more than one meaning.
What is verbal irony?
300
Using something concrete to represent something abstract.
What is symbolism?
400
This is the conflict that is shown in "The Sniper" when the sniper feels remorse for killing his enemies, curses the war and himself, then tries to refocus and laugh it off.
What is Character vs. Self?
400
The football was a rocket as it left the quarterback's hand and flew down the field.
What is a metaphor?
400
This is where the turning point of the conflict is.
What is the climax?
400
"Although Jeff walked in late, the teacher said nothing. The class looked up, and then went back to work. Jeff hurried to his seat, wondering if he would get in trouble." This is written in this point of view.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
400
This is definition of irony.
What is when the opposite of what is expected occurs--with a twist.
500
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz faces this type of conflict when she is facing the Wicked Witch.
What is Character vs. Supernatural?
500
The buzzing of the mosquito kept me awake the whole night.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
This is the French name for the falling action and resolution.
What is the denouement? (It means the outcome of the conflicts)
500
An example of this is when in a murder/mystery, as the detective is explaining who is guilty, the story stops and goes back to explain the events that led to the murder before the story began .
What is flashback?
500
The definition of onomatopoeia.
What is a word that imitates the sound it describes?