Plot & Setting
Characters & Conflict
POV & Theme
Literary NF
Fig. Language
100

The part of the story where the characters are introduced.

Exposition

100

 The main character of a story.

Protagonist

100

POV that shares thoughts and feelings of a character telling the story.

First Person POV

100

The author’s purpose when s/he is trying to convince the audience

Argument/to persuade

100

A comparison using “like” or “as”

Simile

200

The turning point in the story when the main conflict is about to be resolved.

Climax

200

The type of conflict when a character struggles against a government.

Character v. Society

200

The POV when the narrator knows everything about all the characters.

omniscient

200

The most important idea or message the author conveys in a literary text.

Theme

200

The old house grumbled in the wind.

Personification

300

The rising action in a story about a person lost on a desert island.

Events that portray how the person will try to get off the island

300

A character’s internal struggle with a difficult decision.

Internal conflict

300

The central message or universal truth about life in a story.

Theme

300

Author’s voice and word choices create this.

Tone

300

The city was a concrete jungle is an example of this technique.

Metaphor

400

When an author uses examples or stories from his or her life in their writing

Anecdote

400

When an author inserts conversations between characters

Dialogue

400

A narrator outside of the action is telling the story but doesn’t tell all the characters’ thoughts & feelings

Third Person Limited

400

Why and how an author is writing is called this.

Author's Purpose

400

I have a mountain of homework to do is an example of this technique.

figurative language/hyperbole