Plot Sequence
The end of a story when all conflicts have been resolved
What is the resolution?
This is when the author tells you about a character's personality. "The quiet girl and well-mannered boy were always obedient."
What is direct characterization?
Many fairy tale characters are this because they are one-dimensional
What is a flat character?
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject
What is tone?
Her laughter sounded like bells
What is simile?
The major turning point of a story
What is the climax?
This is when the reader must make an inference about characterization as opposed to the author telling about the character directly.
What is indirect characterization?
This character is complex and multi-dimensional character.
What is a round character?
When the author hints at something that is to come later
What is foreshadowing?
My brother is taller than a skyscraper.
What is hyperbole?
The beginning of a story
What is the exposition?
The acronym STEAL stands for these 5 attributes used for analyzing indirect characterization
What is speak, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks?
A character that changes and evolves in a story can be considered this
What is a dynamic character?
This is the term that a reader may feel when reading a ghost story, you might feel tense and afraid.
What is mood?
The tree's limb cracked and groaned when lightning hit it
What is personification?
Conflicts occur to build tension and move plot forward during this
What is rising action?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: In Iron Man, Tony Starks creates the iron man suit from the bare minimum items he has. (1) Creating the suit to escape his prison is an example of this attribute of STEAL. (2) From the evidence above, the reader can infer that Tony Starks is this.
(1) What are actions (2) What is innovative (or something similar)?
A character that does not change is this
What is a static character?
When a different result from what was expected takes place (hint: 2 words)
What is situational irony?
Thumping and booming in excitement, my heart pounded to hear the results of the lottery.
What is onomatopoeia?
After the climax, minor conflicts are also resolved during this
What is falling action?
This type of character appears so often in narratives that they are this—an original, universal model of which each particular instance is a kind of copy.
What is an archetype?
These two types of characters help to develop the conflict in the story
What are protagonist and antagonist?
When what the speaker says is intended to mean something different. (Hint: 2 words)
What is verbal irony?
My grandmother's garden is flourishing because of her green thumb.
What is an idiom?