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So you think you're smart...Challenge!
100
This is the most exciting moment in a story and often the turning point resulting in a change for the main character.
What is the climax?
100
Authors use characters’ thoughts speech and action, among other of these to describe characters to readers.
What are methods of characterization?
100
This a word or short phrase that tell what a story is about.
What is a topic?
100
Infraction, fragmented, fractions, fragile, and refracted come from the Latin root that means this.
What is to break?
100
An author uses this to refer to something that happened before the actions of a story begin.
What is a flashback?
200
Between the exposition and the climax of a story, you can expect to see this.
What is rising action?
200
If a narrator knows and describes the thoughts, feelings, and actions of multiple characters, they are this type of third person narrator.
What is third person omniscient?
200
“Never give up,” “Everyone deserves a second chance,” and “Be careful what you wish for,” are examples of this.
What is a theme?
200
This is Greek root that means heat.
What is therm?
200
Though an author might not tell you exactly what a character is feeling, you can make one of these based on the character’s behavior.
What is an inference?
300
Following the climax and falling action, readers expect this to tie up the loose ends of a story.
What is the resolution?
300
An author writing a novel as a series of diary entries is using this point of view.
What is first person point of view?
300
These are the four main clues to theme.
What are title, plot, characters, and setting?
300
The Latin roots junct, join, and jug mean this.
What is to join?
300
“The sun was an onion, making everyone under its rays cry,” is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
400
Roger experiences this type of conflict when he is deciding whether or not to run out of Mrs. Jones’ apartment.
What is internal conflict?
400
An author that is not the main character, but follows only the main characters thoughts, feelings, and actions, it this type of narrator.
What is third person limited?
400
A dove for peace and a heart for love are examples of this.
What is a symbol?
400
This Latin root meaning to "build" gave us words such as infrastructure, construct, misconstrue, and instructor.
What is struct?
400
When an author makes a reference to an event or person without directly mentioning it, they are making this.
What is an allusion?
500
Charlie shooting Pete van Horn is an example of this type of external conflict.
What is human vs. human?
500
Besides the main character, these character take part in the story as well.
What are minor characters?
500
This is the use of symbols to represent ideas or values beyond what the object is itself.
What is symbolism?
500
Abrupt, rupture, corruptible, disrupt, and bankrupt come from the latin root rupt which means this.
What is to break?
500
“A watched kettle never boils” and “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” are examples of this. (not theme!)
What is an aphorism?