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100
The main character who sets the plot in motion.
Who is the Protagonist?
100
The character of force that blocks the protagonist.
Who is the Anatagonist
100
A character who grows, learns or changes as a result of the story's action.
Who is the Dynamic Character
100
A character who seems like a real person. Character has more dimensions to personality. Complex and multi-faceted.
Who is the Round Character
100
A character who is not well-developed doesn't seem real with only one or two personality traits. One dimensional.
Who is a Flat Character?
200
The series of related events that make up a story or drama.
What is a plot?
200
Background information on characters and events necessary for understanding the story. Basics are exposed.
What is the exposition?
200
Turning point for the protagonist.
What is a climax?
200
The actions that work out the decisions of the climax and all the problems or mysteries of the plot are unraveled.
What is Falling action and Resoultion?
200
The time and place of events in a literary work and the feeling the reader gets when reading the story.
What is the setting and mood?
300
A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character and character struggles against some outside force; another character society as a whole or some natural force.
What is external and internal conflict
300
A struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.
What is conflict?
300
Central idea or insight of a work of literature; most are implied rather than directly stated.
What is theme?
300
Narrator is all-knowing and view limited to one character. From outside the story.
What is 3rd person omniscient and 3rd person limited.
300
A contrast between expectation and reality and reader knows something important that character dosn't know.
What is irony and dramatic irony?
400
uses "I" ; narrator is in the story.
What is 1st person?
400
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is Characterization?
400
Teller of the story
What is narrator?
400
Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about hwat is going to happen next in a story and the uses of clues to hint what is going to happen later in the plot.
What is suspense and foreshadowing?
400
Language that is not meant to interpreted literally; ex: simile, metaphor, personification.
What is figurative language?
500
Attidude a writer takes toward the reading, a subject, or a character; conveyed through the writers choice of words and details.
What is tone?
500
A person place, thing or event that stands both for itself and for simething beyond itself and word choice
What is symbol and diction?
500
What actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate and when a speaker says one thing but means the opposite.
What is situational irony and verbal irony?
500
The vantagepoint from which awriter tells a story.
What is a point of view?
500
The final part of the play, movie or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
What is denouement?