What Freytag might call the most intense part of the story
What is the climax?
100
This is the literary term for the person or force that opposes the main character.
What is an antagonist?
100
This is what is used to determine POV, not the dialogue.
What is narration?
100
An example of this conflict would be Moe trying to sail his boat in the middle of a ferocious storm at sea
What is human vs. nature?
100
This is not written in second person, nor can it be a cliche. It must also contain a universal truth about human beings or life.
What is theme?
200
What Freytag called the very beginning of the story
What is the exposition?
200
The way an author reveals the personality of a character by what they say, do, look like, and what others say about him/her.
What is indirect characterization?
200
This means "all knowing"
What is omniscient?
200
Human vs. human, human vs. nature, and human vs. society are all this type of conflict.
What is external or interpersonal conflict?
200
This is the plot pyramid OG.
Who is Aristotle?
300
The kind of plot that starts in the middle of the story.
What is in media res?
300
This type of character remains the same throughout the story and does NOT undergo any significant change.
What is a static character?
300
This POV is from the perspective of someone who is actually within the story
What is first person?
300
The type of conflict Mrs. H.T. Miller has if Miriam is a product of her own mind.
What is human vs. self?
300
This is where one character sheds light on the protagonist by displaying traits that are opposite to the protagonist's.
What is a foil?
400
This is when the story starts settling down, and problems start being resolved
What is the falling action?
400
The child Miriam appears to have many different facets or sides to her personality. At times she is polite and calm, and at others, her anger flares up in strange ways. She is this type of character.
What is a round character?
400
This is what Junot Diaz uses in "How To Date..." and has an instructive tone to it.
What is second person?
400
In a world where books are banned, Guy Montag reads secretly and attains knowledge through volumes of old novels. He then rejects his job as a "firefighter" and goes on the run, thus creating this type of conflict in Fahrenheit 451.
What is human vs. society?
400
One purpose of this type of narrative is to remove the reader from the "heart" of the story and make the reader question the truthfulness of the narrator
What is frame narrative?
500
This is the type of story that is told from beginning to end.
What is chronological?
500
A character that seems one-dimensional, usually a stereotype
What is a flat character?
500
This point of view allows the reader only one perspective, but the narrator exists outside of the story. The effect of this POV is that we empathize/sympathize mostly with one character because we see his/her thoughts and feelings, but the reader can still stay far enough removed to be able to critique the character honestly.
What is third person limited?
500
Without conflict, this cannot occur.
What is plot?
500
These are the three words that are typically associated with a tragic hero—a tragic flaw, excessive pride, and the purging of emotions through pity or fear.