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Types of Characters
Words for Words
Parts of a Story
Types of Speech
Miscellaneous
100
A major character that encounters a conflict and is changed by it. "Round Character"
What is Dynamic Character
100
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration
100
Items or parts that make up a larger picture or story.
What is Details
100
A usually long, dramatic speech by a single character.
What is Monologue
100
Comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement
What is Humor
200
A minor character
What is Supportive Character
200
Repetition of vowel sounds.
What is Assonance
200
The reason why an author created his/her work.
What is Author's purpose
200
A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his own thoughts.
What is Sililoquy
200
A statement that seems to be self-contradictory, but is actually true
What is Paradox
300
A character who does not undergo substantial change.
What is Flat Character
300
Repetition of consonant sounds.
What is Consonance
300
Turning point
What is Climax
300
Texts meant to be read aloud in front of a group of people.
What is Speech
300
Combination of opposites, ie. jumbo shrimp
What is Oxymoron
400
A character who works against the protagonist.
What is Antagonist
400
A type of informational diction; regional language
What is Dialect
400
Hints about what will happen later.
What is Foreshadowing
400
Vantage point of story where the narrator can see and report whatever he chooses.
What is Omniscient point of view
400
A work that targets human vices and folly or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. Often uses imitation, irony, and/or sarcasm.
What is Satire
500
Main protagonist in an epic poem.
What is Epic Hero
500
A special language of a professional group.
What is Jargon
500
An outcome or solution; the unraveling of the plot
What is Denouement
500
A type of lyric poem in which a character addresses distinct but silence audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal and dramatic situation and often unintentionally revealing a part of his temperament personality.
What is Dramatic Monologue
500
Intent and actual meaning differ; can be verbal, situational,or dramatic
What is Irony