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100
This is a literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story
What is characterization?
100
This is the sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
100
This serves as a warning or indication of (a future event).
What is foreshadowing?
100
This is the name for the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
100
This is where Smythe lives.
What is San Marcos?
200
These characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.
What are round characters?
200
This is a secondary plot, or a strand of the main plot that runs parallel to it and supports it
What is a subplot?
200
This is a scene in a novel, short story, etc. set in a time earlier than the main story.
What is a flashback?
200
This is the idea or feeling a word brings to mind.
What is connotation?
200
This is where Smythe grew up.
What is Waco?
300
These characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work
What are flat characters?
300
This is a secondary or minor plot in a literary work which may contrast with the main plot, highlight it, or be completely unrelated
What is a subplot?
300
This is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
What is suspense?
300
This transcends social and cultural boundaries and speaks to a common human experience.
What is universal theme or theme?
300
This is Smythe's favorite sport.
What is soccer?
400
This is the mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, essay etc.
What is point of view?
400
This is the part of the story where characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
400
This is a subtle distinction or fine detail used by writers.
What is nuance?
400
This is the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
400
This is Smythe's favorite football team.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys or America's Team?
500
This a character who contrasts with another character —usually the protagonist— in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
What is a foil?
500
This occurs when the conflict has been solved and usually indicates the ending.
What is the resolution or denouement?
500
This is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance
What is an allusion?
500
This is a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do (right and wrong)
What is a moral dilemma?
500
This is where Smythe went to high school.
What is Midway?