The opponent or enemy of the main character, or protagonist.
What is antagonist
100
Clues or hints about something that is going to happen
later in the story
What is foreshadowing
100
The environment in which a story takes place, including the time period,
the location, and the physical characteristics of the surroundings.
What is setting
100
The practice of using symbols.
What is symbolism
100
When two or more words in a group of words begin with the
same sound
What is alliteration
200
Words spoken to the audience by a character in a drama that are not supposed
to be heard by the other characters onstage
What is an aside
200
The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature.
What is mood
200
A story’s main message or moral.
What is theme
200
The main or central character of a work of literature. Usually,
the main character is involved in a conflict or struggle with the antagonist.
What is protagonist
200
The conversation between characters in a work of literature.
What is dialogue
300
The point in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the
conflict reaches its greatest intensity and is then resolved.
What is the climax
300
Language that portrays sensory experiences, or experiences of the five
senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
What is imagery
300
The author’s attitude toward the subject matter or toward the reader or audience.
What is tone
300
Describing nonhuman animals, objects, or ideas
as though they possess human qualities or emotions.
What is personification
300
Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect;
What is hyperbole
400
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict
400
The sequence of events in a story. includes the opening event (what happens
at the beginning/the main problem that the main character faces), the rising action (what happens to
intensify the problem), the climax (when the problem reaches its most intense point and begins to be
resolved), the falling action (what happens to solve the problem), and the resolution (how things end).
What is plot
400
A character who does not undergo a significant change
over the course of a story.
What is static character
400
An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual
words.
What is idiom
400
The use of words whose sounds imitate the sounds of
what they describe, such as hiss, murmur, growl, honk, buzz, woof, etc
What is onomatopoeia
500
uses words in some way other
than for their literal meanings to make a comparison, add emphasis, or say something in a fresh and
creative way.
What is figurative language
500
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view
500
An object, setting, event, animal, or person that on one level is itself, but that
has another meaning as well.
What is symbol
500
A scene in a story that occurred before the present time in the story.
What is flashback
500
When two unlike things are compared—using like or as—in order to illuminate
a particular quality or aspect of one of those things