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Plot
Literary Techniques
Conventions
Miscellaneous
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This is the name for the beginning of a story, otherwise known as a "hook", or "attention getter".
What is a lead?
100
This literary technique is when you start the story in the middle of the action.
What is "in medias res"?
100
This punctuation mark is used to show that a character is speaking.
What is a quotation mark?
100
This part of the plot gives background information on characters, setting, or events.
What is exposition?
200
It is the struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
200
This literary technique is a look backward at past events.
What is flashback?
200
This type of sentence combines two (or more) complete thoughts without any punctuation marks.
What is a run-on sentence?
200
This essential writing technique paints vivid pictures in the reader's mind, using the 5 senses.
What is a snapshot?
300
This is the name for the "force" that opposes the character engaged in the struggle.
What is the antagonist?
300
This literary technique is when the author steps outside the story to make comments or jokes directly with the reader.
What is metafiction?
300
Every time a new character speaks, or the story changes setting, one of these is used.
What is a paragraph?
300
This essential writing technique allows the reader to see what characters are thinking or feeling
What is a thoughtshot?
400
It is an event or situation that makes the conflict harder to solve.
What is a complication?
400
This literary technique is a detailed snapshot that "zooms in" to slow down an intense moment.
What is "exploding a moment"?
400
This type of sentence is incomplete, because it is either missing a subject (noun) or a predicate (verb).
What is a fragment?
400
This part of the plot is when the loose ends are tied up.
What is a resolution?
500
The part of the story where the protagonist's fate is *about* to be decided.
What is the climax?
500
This literary technique is the sudden solving of a seemingly impossible conflict.
What is "deus ex machina"?
500
These are all the words that make up the acronym "AAAWWUBBIS"
What are as, after, although, while, when, unless, before, because, if, and since?
500
This literary device paints a vivid picture in the reader's mind, but is NOT literally true.
What is figurative language?