The part of the plot that introduces the characters, as well as the time and location in which a story takes place.
What is the exposition?
100
It is a literary device used for expressing any kind of resistance the protagonist of the story finds in achieving his or her goals.
What is conflict?
100
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
100
It is not presented directly at all. You extract it from the characters, action, and setting that make up the story; the main idea
What is theme?
100
The moment of greatest intensity in a work of fiction; solves the opening conflict and represents a turning point.
What is the climax?
200
The sequence of directly stated events in a work of fiction.
What is the plot?
200
Defines the kind of struggle that a character has when they have difficulty making a choice, experiencing change, or have conflicting feelings, goals, and/or aspirations.
What is internal conflict?
200
The story is told from the main character's perspective, or a character who is close to the main character. Usually, "I" is used.
What is first person?
200
The character or force that deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character
Who is the antagonist?
200
Stage of plot development where the effects of the climax are shown
What is falling action.
300
Stage of plot development where the reader knows the conflict and the suspense builds
What is rising action?
300
A struggle with any type of force outside of one's self.
What is external conflict?
300
The narration moves from character to character, event to event, having free access to thoughts and feelings of the characters. Use of he/she/they --
What is omniscient, third person narration?
300
A character who experiences growth and change during the course of the story.
What is dynamic character?
300
The events that show the effects of the climax
What is falling action?
400
A single event that reveals an opening conflict and sets the rising action in motion?
What is the inciting incident?
400
Psychological struggle arising from a character's opposing forces, ideas, demands, or impulse.
What is man vs. self?
400
Characters who do not experience change during the story
What is static character?
400
Character in a story, novel, drama, or other literary work that the reader or audience empathizes with because the action focuses mainly on this character's experiences
What is the protagonist?
400
A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interrupts the action to show an event that happened at an earlier time.
What is flashback?
500
This is the final outcome, or untangling of events in a story.
What is resolution?
500
Term for when the main character struggles against the beliefs, practices, or customs of other people.
What is man vs. society?
500
A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant; or a contrast between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature.
What is irony?
500
It is the message that is a generalization about life or a lesson that is gathered by the story's end
What is the moral of the story?
500
Hints or suggestions about what may happen later on in the story.