People, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action of the story.
What are the characters of a story?
100
Part of the story that becomes more complex and leads to the climax.
What is the rising action?
100
The struggle between a character and something outside the character.
What is external conflict?
100
The character is telling the story. Pronouns you will see are "I, Me, Us, We".
What is first person point of view?
200
Writing that comes from an authors imagination.
What is fiction?
200
The turning point of events (when the action reaches a peak and the conflict is decided).
What is the climax?
200
The conflict is within the character's mind.
What is internal conflict?
200
The narrator is telling the story. You will see "they, he, she, him, her, them" as pronouns.
What is 3rd person point of view?
300
It is the time and place at which the events of the story happen.
What is the setting?
300
Sets the stage for the story. Characters are introduced, the setting is described , and the conflict begins to unfold.
What is the exposition?
300
The main character in a work of literature.
What is the protagonist?
300
Methods used by the author to reveal a character in the story.
What is characterization?
400
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
400
The events that follow the climax and bring us to a resolution in the story.
What is falling action?
400
The perspective (point) from which a story is told.
What is the point of view?
400
Jason ran and ran until he felt like collapsing. The villain was so close on his trail he did not think he would make it out of the situation alive.
The author wants the reader to understand this theme from this story excerpt.
a. What is escape?
b. What is coming of age?
Pick 1...
500
The moral or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
500
Loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
500
The character that is against (or opposes) the protagonist (main character).