Types of Characters
The person or force that works against the hero of the story.
What is an antagonist?
The beginning of the story that introduces characters, setting, and background.
What is the exposition?
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
What is rhythm?
What is a simile?
What a piece of writing is mostly about.
What is main idea?
The main character in a story; the good guy.
What is the protagonist?
The highest point in the action of a story.
What is the climax?
Pattern of beats in a line of poetry.
Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
Comparison that shows a relationship between two things.
What is an analogy?
The character that stays the SAME in the story.
What is a static character?
How the story ends; the problems are solved.
What is the resolution?
A unit of poetry. A poetic paragraph.
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
The extra sense that a word is positive or negative.
What is connotation?
The character that CHANGES in the story.
What is a dynamic character?
Events leading up to the climax of the story.
What is rising action?
Poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
An expression that doesn't mean exactly what it says.
What is an idiom?
Japanese three line poem following 5-7-5.
What is a haiku?
What is a flat character?
The action and dialogue following the climax that leads the reader to the ending.
What is the falling action?
Funny poem.
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
The character that has MANY traits.
What is a round character?