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Story and Plot
Character
Elements of Story
Poetic Devices
Poetic Devices 2
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The storyline in a play or story based on a sequence of events linked by cause and effect.
What is plot
100
The methods a writer uses to develop the personality of a character. This is especially attained by description of the character's actions, gestures and general demeanour.
What is characterization
100
The story is told by one of the characters who is referred to as "I". The reader generally sees everything through that character's eyes.
What is first person narration
100
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration
100
measured rhythm created through a repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is metre
200
The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem where the conflict reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. It is also usually the peak of emotional response from a reader or spectator and also the turning point in the action.
What is the climax
200
A character that is used to contrast opposing traits with another character.
What is a character foil
200
A situation in which the audience knows something a character does not.
What is dramatic irony
200
Words that rhyme within the same line
What is internal rhyme
200
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance
300
A force of opposition and struggle found in fiction. It may be internal or external and is usually one of the following scenarios: (1) Man against Man: (2) Man against Nature; (3) Man against self.
What is conflict
300
A character who changes significantly during the story (growing older is not a significant change).
What is a dynamic character
300
The literary art of diminishing a person or topic or human quality by making it appear ridiculous.
What is satire
300
The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words
What is consonance
300
An unrhymed poem written in iambic pentametre
What is blank verse
400
The use of details and clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing
400
Conversation between characters in a drama or story.
What is dialogue
400
Something that represents something else.
What is a symbol
400
Direct address of a person, object, entity, or abstract quality as though it were present and listening
What is apostrophe
400
A statement which is true even though it seems contradictory or absurd
What is paradox
500
A story in which the literal meaning represents another level of meaning.
What is an allegory
500
A simple or one-sided character in a story; one who does not change or develop. Characters who reveal only one personality trait.
What is a flat character
500
A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art or fiction.
What is an allusion
500
A polite or pleasant way of saying something that is unpleasant.
What is a euphemism
500
Loving hate and pleasing plague are good examples of this.
What is oxymoron