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Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Character
Potpourri
100
This literary term can be defined as the person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
100
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
100
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
100
This character works against the protagonist.
Who is the antagonist?
100
This is the central idea in a literary work.
What is the theme?
200
The perspective from which a story is being told is known as this literary term.
What is point of view?
200
The part of the plot where the action begins is known as what?
What is the rising action?
200
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
200
The force or forces that drive a character to behave in a certain way?
What is a motivation?
200
The emotional reaction that a story creates in the reader.
What is mood?
300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300
This is when an author gives hints or clues to events that will occur later in the story.
What is the falling action?
300
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
300
This is a character that does not change in the course of a story.
What is static?
300
When you think about what is going to happen next or what the outcome of an event will be, you are doing this.
What is predicting?
400
This kind of narrator cannot be trusted.
What is an unreliable narrator?
400
In this part of the plot, the central conflict is ended.
What is the resolution?
400
These details help readers see, hear, feel, and smell a setting.
What are sensory details?
400
This is when an author describes a character's physical features, dress, and personality
What is direct characterization?
400
This kind of language should be avoided when writing for your English teacher.
What is slang?
500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, this is known as which point of view?
What is third-person omniscient?
500
This type of conflict can be between a character and nature, between a character and society, and between two main characters.
What is the external?
500
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
500
A version of language spoken by the people of a particular place, time, or social group.
What is a dialect?
500
A reader must make inferences about an author's intent and perception of the events in a story to figure this out.
What is an implied theme?