PLOT
CHARACTERS
CONFLICT
POV
LITERARY TERMS & TECHNIQUES
100

The turning point of the story or the moment of highest tension.

What is the climax?

100

The main or central character of the story.

What is a protagonist?

100

The protagonist struggles against a god or gods.

What is Character vs. the Supernatural?

100

The narrator is the main character of the story and retells it as he/she/they remember it.

What is First Person Point of View?

100

This literary device is used by the author to give clues about something that will happen in the future.

What is Foreshadowing?

200

The obstacles and complications that build up the story.

What is the rising action?

200

This type of character remains the same throughout the story.

What is a static character?

200

Tenzing and Edmund must survive the brutal conditions on the world's highest mountain.

What is Character(s) vs. Nature?

200

Told by a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings.

What is Third Person Objective Point of View?

200

A technique that breaks from the present to reflect upon an event or incident that took place in the past.

What is Flashback?

300

The event that triggers the plot.

What is the intial incident?

300

The opposer of the protagonist.

What is the antagonist?

300

When the protagonist is in conflict with a mechanical being.

What is Character vs. Machine?

300
Story is told by a narrator outside of the story but with unlimited knowledge.

What is Third Person Omniscient?

300

The characteristic of being "all-knowing".

What is omniscient?

400

This element of plot introduces the setting and characters.

What is the exposition?

400

This type of character goes through an important internal change, often in personality or attitude.

What is a dynamic character?

400

Sally joined the suffragettes demanding votes for women.

What is Character vs. Society?

400

Point of view that is characterized by the used of "you", "your" and "yours".

What is Second Person Point of View?

400

The feeling created in the reader.

What is mood?

500
A work's  ______ is when events and complications begin to resolve themselves.

What is Falling Action?

500

Characters who are notable for one kind of personality trait.

What is a flat character?
500

The struggle of conflict is between the protagonist and antagonist.

What is Character vs. Character?

500

Told by a narrator but we only know the thoughts and feelings of one character.

What is Third Person Limited or Limited Omniscient?
500

A character who could exist in real life.

What is a plausible character?