Plot
The end of a story
What is resolution?
When the author tells you about a character
What is direct characterization?
Her laughter sounds like a song.
What is simile?
Characters that are one-dimensional.
What are flat characters?
When watching a scary movie, you may feel afraid.
What is mood?
The turning point of a story
What is the climax?
When the reader must make an inference about a character
What is indirect characterization?
The world is a stage.
What is metaphor?
Characters that are complex and multi-dimensional.
What are round characters?
When someone talks about how many like their picture on Instagram got, they may feel exited and happy.
What is tone?
The beginning of a story
What is the exposition?
The acronym STEAL stands for
What is speech, thoughts, effects, actions, and looks?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! (1) This is a synonym for sensory details. (2) These are the types of sensory detail.
What is imagery? What are sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell?
Characters that change and evolve.
What are dynamic characters?
The writer of a story gives a hint of what is going to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest
What is rising action?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! True or False: Direct characterization uses feelings and emotions.
What is False?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
Characters that do not change.
What are static characters?
An interjected scene that takes place back in time.
What is a flaskback?
After the climax, conflicts are resolved
What is falling action?
The trusting woman is a direct or indirect characterization.
What is direct?
An idea or object that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
A character whose personality traits contrast with another character.
What is a foil character?
This is when the speaker's intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying.
Verbal irony