Person or force that works against the hero of the story.
What is antagonist?
100
Angle from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
100
The highest point of action in the story.
What is climax?
100
The lesson a story teaches.
What is moral?
100
Central part of the story during which various problems arise.
What is rising action?
200
Ways in which a writer develops a character, making him or her seem believable.
What is characterization?
200
Allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feeling of only one character.
What is limited omniscient?
200
Problem or struggle between two opposing forces within a story.
What is conflict?
200
Message about life or human nature that is ‘hidden’ in the story that the writer tells.
What is theme?
200
Type of conflict involving the protagonist and his/her conscience or other psychological issue.
What is man vs. self?
300
Main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is protagonist?
300
One of the characters is telling the story.
What is first-person point of view?
300
Action and dialogue following the climax that leads the reader into the story’s end.
What is falling action?
300
The attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature, revealed by the characters, word choice, and general writing style, authors feeling toward the text.
What is tone?
300
Conflict that involves the protagonist and a group of people usually involving legal matters, medical concerns, or societal expectations.
What is man vs. society?
400
The author tells us what a character is like.
What is direct characterization.
400
Allows the narrator to share thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is omniscient?
400
Part of the story in which the problems are solved and the action comes to a satisfying ending.
What is resolution?
400
The feeling a piece of literature created in a reader.
What is mood?
400
The type of conflict involving the protagonist and an antagonist interfering with the protagonist meeting his/her goal.
What is man vs. man?
500
Author shows us what the character is like through actions, and what other characters say.
What is indirect characterization?
500
Someone from the outside of the story is telling it.
What is third-person point of view?
500
The part of the story, usually near the beginning, in which the characters are introduced, the background is explained and the setting is described.
What is exposition?
500
Character who serves as a contrast or challenge to the main character.
What is foil?
500
Type of conflict involving the protagonist and an issue that is out of his or her control.