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Plot
Character & Conflict
Literary Grab Bag
Narrator
Figurative Language
100
The highest point of interest or turning point in at story.
What is climax?
100
The main character in the story.
What is the protagonist?
100
The place and time where the action of a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
A narrator that expresses his/her thoughts directly to the reader.
What is a first person narrator?
100
"As black as coal."
What is simile?
200
When the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition/introduction?
200
The character/force that opposes the main character of a story.
What is the antagonist?
200
An object that represents an idea.
What is symbol?
200
An outside narrator that is capable of describing the thoughts and actions of a single character.
What is a third person limited omniscient narrator?
200
"Roller coaster of emotions."
What is metaphor?
300
The events in the story that build upon the conflict.
What is rising action?
300
A type of conflict that might be characterized by the protagonist's emotional turmoil.
What is internal conflict?
300
A literary element that evokes certain feelings in readers through words and descriptions.
What is mood?
300
An outside narrator that can describe the thoughts and actions of all characters.
What is a third person omniscient narrator?
300
"Ah'm so hungry, I could eats a whole family o' 'possums!"
What is hyperbole?
400
The term to describe the events that lead to the end of the story.
What is falling action or denouement?
400
A type of conflict that might be characterized by a problem caused by outside forces.
What is external conflict?
400
An author/speaker/narrator's attitude towards a particular event, person or subject.
What is tone?
400
A type of narrator that makes the reader feel as if he/she is a character in the story.
What is a second person narrator?
400
"Y'all need to cross over at the mouth of the river."
What is personification?
500
The term used to describe the conclusion of the story.
What is the resolution?
500
The term used to describe the type of character that has undergone a change due to the conflict of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
500
A type of irony wherein a character experiences a reversal of expectations.
What is situational irony?
500
A word to describe a narrative voice that cannot be trusted.
What is unreliable?
500
"Deafening silence."
What is oxymoron?