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Characterization
Plot
Conflict
Vocabulary
Style
100
These characters are characters that experience change.
What are dynamic characters?
100
The most exciting part of the story.
What is climax?
100
What is a conflict?
What is a struggle of some kind that is important to plot?
100
Where, when the story is set.
What is setting?
100
When a story is told from a character's point of view, using words like "I," or "me".
What is first person point of view?
200
Characters that stay the same and do not develop.
What are static characters?
200
Describes how the conflict is resolved.
What is resolution?
200
When a character faces struggles within himself or herself.
What is internal conflict?
200
Message about life or human nature.
What is theme?
200
When a narrator tells the story from one character's point of view, using words like "he" or "she."
What is third person point of view?
300
What is when the author describes the character and the reader makes judgments about him or her.
What is indirect characterization?
300
Introduces the characters, setting, and situation.
What is the exposition?
300
When a character faces a conflict with some outside force.
What is external conflict?
300
Any person, place, or object that has meaning in itself, but usually stands for something larger, like an idea, quality, attitude, etc.
What is symbolism?
300
When an ALL KNOWING narrator tells the story, using words like "he," or "she."
What is Third person omniscient?
400
The main character in the story.
What is a protagonist?
400
An increase of dramatic tension after the introduction of the conflict.
What is rising action?
400
When a character faces a conflict with some element of nature.
What is person vs. nature?
400
Without this, there can be no plot.
What is conflict?
400
When two or more characters are engaged in conversation.
What is a dialogue?
500
When the author tells you what to think about the character. Example: "Penny is mean."
Direct characterization.
500
Release of tension after the climax.
What is Falling Action?
500
The five types of conflict.
What are man v. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, man vs. society man vs. fate?
500
Time order.
What is chronological order?
500
Long speech made by one person.
What is a monologue?