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Genre
100
What is an account of the ACTION and all of the motivations lying behind the action in a literary work.
What is plot?
100

A struggle between two opposing forces.

What is conflict?

100

Appeals to the senses. It is written so that the reader can literally hear, feel, taste, touch, smell, see what the author is describing.

What is sensory language or imagery?

100

A figure of speech that compares things using like or as.

What is simile?

100

A long fictional story whose length is usually somewhere between 100 and 500 pages that uses plot, character, setting, theme, and point of view.

What is novel?

200
A person, animal, or inanimate object in a story, play, or other literary work.
What is character?
200

A character in literature who opposes, or goes against, the main character.

What is antagonist?

200
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is setting?
200
When an author uses an object to stand for an idea.
What is symbolism?
200
A story written about a person’s life, but it is written by another person.
What is biography?
300
A figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
300

A prose account that is basically made up rather than actually being true

What is fiction?

300
Expressions that are not literally true. They create fresh and original descriptions.
What is figurative language?
300
Arrangement of events in the order in which they happened.
What is chronological order?
300
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is metaphor?
400
A struggle with an internal force…Man vs. Self. The conflict is emotional.
What is internal conflict?
400
A struggle with outside forces…three types: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Society
What is external conflict?
400
When a character in the story tells the story and pronouns such as I, we, us, and me suggests what point of view is being used?
What is first person point of view?
400
A lesson that is learned at the end of reading.
What is moral?
400
The leading character or one of the main characters of a story?
What is protagonist?
500
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes
What is personification?
500
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
500
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story and the readers have insight into a character's mind, this is the point of view?
What is third person omniscient point of view?
500
The one telling the story.
What is narrator?
500
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?