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Plot
Through Whose Eyes?
Describe It
Figuratively Speaking
Potpourri
100
events that develop the conflict and increase the tension
What is rising action?
100
the one who tells the story
What is narrator?
100
the time and place of the story
What is setting?
100
a special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is given human characteristics
What is personification?
100
a problem or struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
200
events that follow the climax as the story moves toward the resolution
What is falling action?
200
a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
What is a character?
200
the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood (or atmosphere)?
200
anything that stands for or represents something else
What is symbol?
200
a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art
What is allusion?
300
the part of a story, usually at the beginning, that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation
What is exposition?
300
the point of view in which one of the characters tells the story using pronouns such as "I" and "me"; the reader can know only what this character knows and sees
What is first-person point of view?
300
a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events
What is suspense?
300
a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using an explicit word such as like, as, resembles, or than
What is simile?
300
clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot
What is foreshadowing?
400
the final outcome, during which any remaining conflicts are resolved or left open
What is resolution?
400
the point of view in which the narrator knows everything about the characters and their thoughts, feelings, and problems. The narrator does not take part in the story's action; rather, the narrator stands above the action like a god.
What is third-person omniscient point of view?
400
writing that uses descriptive language to appeal to the senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell)
What is imagery?
400
a figure of speech that refers to one thing as if it were another unlike thing without the use of comparison words such as like, as, resembles, or than
What is metaphor?
400
the central idea, or message, of the story. This can usually be expressed as a generalization, or general statement, about human beings or about life.
What is theme?
500
the high point in the action of the plot; the moment of greatest tension, when the outcome of the plot hangs in the balance
What is climax?
500
the point of view in which the narrator relates the thoughts and feelings of only one character, and everything is viewed from this character's perspective
What is third-person limited point of view?
500
the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience
What is tone?
500
a metaphor in which the comparison is developed in a number of ways
What is extended metaphor?
500
a contradiction between what happens and what is expected
What is irony?