Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This plot element forces the protagonist to face the conflict directly, marking a turning point in the story.
What is the climax?
This figure of speech compares two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
This type of character changes or grows throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
This conflict occurs within a character’s own mind.
What is internal conflict? (or man vs self)
A word that expresses action or being
What is a verb?
This plot element develops the central conflict by complicating the problem and increasing reader's investment.
What is rising action?
This figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This character opposes or works against the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
The use of sensory details to help the reader visualize the story.
What is imagery?
This part of speech describes or modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
This plot element establishes context by introducing characters, setting, and the central situation so the reader is oriented.
What is exposition?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas
What is personification?
This type of character stays the same from beginning to end.
What is a static character?
When an author returns to a scene set earlier in time than the main story.
What is a flashback?
This part of speech replaces a noun to avoid repetition.
What is a pronoun?
This plot element reinforces the story’s theme by showing the final outcome and how the conflict permanently changes the world or characters.
What is resolution?
The use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.
What is foreshadowing?
This type of character is complex, realistic, and has multiple traits or motivations.
What is a round character?
The underlying message or the lesson that you learn from the text.
What is the theme?
Verbs that express existence and connect (or link) the subject of the sentence with a word in the other half of the sentence that describes or identifies it.
What is a linking verb?
This plot element shows how the consequences of the climax affect characters and begin resolving remaining tensions.
What is falling action?
a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract
What is a symbol (or symbolism)?
This type of character has only one or two traits and is not fully developed.
What is a flat character?
The contrast between expectations and reality
What is irony?