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Plot
Characterization
Theme
Point of View
Figurative Language
100
This is what happens in a story
What is plot?
100
The author directly tells you about a character in the story.
What is direct characterization
100
The main idea or underlying meaning of a story.
What is theme?
100
The character or voice telling a story.
What is a narrator?
100
A comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
A character's internal problem or struggle.
What is internal conflict?
200
Characters described through their appearance, actions, speech, thoughts and feeling, and the reactions of others.
What is indirect characterization?
200
The primary or most important theme in the story.
What is the primary theme?
200
The vantage point from which a story is told?
What is point of view?
200
Words that mimic sounds, meaning can be "sound."
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
The most exciting part of the story
What is the climax?
300
A character with many traits, we feel like we know them.
What is a round character?
300
The meaning of a story is directly stated.
What is explicit theme?
300
When one of the story's characters is telling the story.
What is first-person point of view?
300
A repeated consonant sound occurring at the beginning of words or within words.
What is an alliteration?
400
This part ties up all the loose ends in the story.
What is the resolution?
400
A character has a problem with another character in the story.
What is an external conflict?
400
The meaning of a story is not directly stated but rather it is inferred by the reader.
What is implicit theme?
400
Person telling the story is not part of the story but can zoom in on the thoughts and feeling of one character.
What is third-person limited point of vew?
400
A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.
What is personification?
500
Hints or clues as to what might happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
500
A character personality is revealed through the reactions of the other characters.
What is indirect characterization?
500
Themes that appear over and over again in literature.
What is a recurring theme?
500
The narrator tells the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters, all knowing.
What is omniscient point of view?
500
An exaggerated statement used to emphasize a point.
What is hyperbole?