What is action, description, narration, or anything else that runs counter to the expectations of the audience/reader?
100
Narrator
What is the voice telling the story.
100
Metaphor
What is a comparison of two unlike things for an intended purpose?
100
Plot
What is the organization of a story, the action, driven by conflict?
100
Character
What is a person, animal, or otherwise, seen or unseen, taking part in the action of a story, poem, play, movie, or novel
200
Theme
What is the communicative purpose of a piece?
200
First Person Narrator
What is the voice telling the story as a character in the story?
200
Figurative Language
What is a simile, metaphor, symbolism, imagery - describing that which is beyond the literal?
200
Climax
What is the point where the conflict reaches a critical point and changes?
200
Characterization
What are actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a sense of a character’s personality to the reader
300
Mood
What is a feeling or atmosphere conveyed to the reader; evoked by word choice, characterization, setting, etc?
300
Third Person Omniscient Narrator
What is the voice telling the story that focuses on the internal thoughts and feelings of any and all characters at any given time?
300
Allusion
What is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication?
300
Setting
What is the time and place that a story happens?
300
Protagonist
Who is the character who deals with the conflict?
400
Tone
What is the narrator’s implied attitude toward the subject?
400
Third Person Limited Narrator
What is the voice telling the story that is focused on only one character at a time and often provides that character’s internal thoughts and feelings?
400
Extended Metaphor
What is a metaphor developed and sustained through an entire piece for an intended effect?
400
Flashback
What is action that happens chronologically prior to the setting of a piece of fiction?
400
Conflict
What is the problem or tension that drives the plot?
500
allegory
What is literature that seeks to teach a moral lesson through symbolism or extended metaphor?
500
First Person
What is the point of view of "The Man I Killed" in The Things They Carried?
500
Metaphor - it isn't literally raining men, there's just a lot of dudes.