Unit 1: Conflict
This is the central character in a story.
Protagonist
This is a complex, multi-faceted character that is capable of surprising the reader.
Round
Ideas about life that can be understood by people of all times and places are called this.
Universal theme
In this kind of point-of-view, the storyteller "knows all," including how other characters think and feel.
Omniscient
This is the action, or series of events of a story.
Plot
Tone is the attitude of this person.
Author
This is the author of TKAM.
Harper Lee
This term means hinting at events that will occur later in a story.
Foreshadowing
This is a character that does not change, whether they have positive or negative traits.
Static
Themes that are not openly stated by an author but must be inferred from the details of the story are called this.
Implicit theme
This kind of point-of-view relates only what the narrator can reasonably know and uses pronouns such as "I."
first-person
This is a story development that violates the reader's expectations.
Plot twist (surprise ending)
Similar to tone, this term refers to the atmosphere, or emotion the reader is intended to share with the story's characters.
mood
This is the time period and setting of TKAM.
1930s, Maycomb, Alabama
This term refers to the anxiety that comes from an author's withholding of plot details.
suspense
This refers to a character who undergoes changes in attitude or thinking, who develops through the story.
This is the simplest form of theme, a short, explicit statement, often found at the end of fables.
moral
This term refers to categories or types of literature.
genre
This is the part of the story that introduces the setting, characters, and situation.
exposition
Cyrano saying,"This lengthy nose which, go where'er I will,/Pokes yet a quarter-mile ahead of me," is an example of this term.
overstatement (hyperbole)
This is the narrator and POV of TKAM.
Scout, 1st person
This refers to an author using the dress, dialect, geography, social practices, and general worldview of a specific region to portray the story
local color
This is a character who possesses character qualities that directly oppose or contrast with another character's, and this is the character in Don Quixote who exemplifies this.
foil/Sancho Panza
This refers to a situation in which the reader/audience is aware of a plot development of which the character(s) is unaware.
Dramatic irony
"The Silver Mine," "The Open Window," and "The Forty Thieves" are examples of this type of "story within a story."
Frame story
This is an event that sets in motion the conflict of the story.
inciting moment
Cyrano saying to Roxanne, "You were not ill to see!" is an example of this term.
understatement (litotes)
This is the genre of TKAM.
historical fiction/Courtroom drama
This is literature written to persuade a reader to believe the author's position on a significant issue.
Propaganda
These are three ways an author can reveal a character's traits, either directly or indirectly.
description, dialogue, action
In this passage from "The Silver Mine," is the theme explicit or implicit?
"'The kingdom is better served with men than with money,' remarked the king. When he had said this, he bade the clergyman farewell and went out from the vestry."
explicit
In this type of fiction, the author rarely uses an omniscient point of view in order to keep the reader in suspense until the end.
Detective fiction
What technique is used effectively in "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" to keep the reader in suspense until Sherlock Holmes reveals how he solved the case?
flashback/telling the story from Watson's limited POV
This is the tone of Max Beerbohm's "The Crime."
humorous
This character was the town gossip.
Miss Stephanie
greedy land speculation/laws that favor the landowners
Phaethon's rashness in demanding to drive his Sun father's chariot is an example of this.
tragic flaw (pride)
This is the theme of the story about the Gessler brothers who made shoes but were put out of business by more modern shoemakers.
Quality/ or Quality is better than mass production and compromise of standards
This is a short narrative of a single interesting or amusing incident.
anecdote
This is the "untying" or plot resolution.
denouement
These are the two main divisions of drama.
Comedy and Tragedy
This is who killed Bob Ewell.
Boo (Arthur) Radley
This was the plot twist in the story "Miss Hinch."
The main characters were in disguise (The old lady was really Jessie Dark, the reporter, and the clergyman was really Miss Hinch.)
Anton (Neighbor Rosicky) was an example of these two character terms.
Round, Static, sympathetic
In Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, this was the symbol of lost youth.
a rose
This is the point of view used in "The Open Window" in most of the story, and this is what it changes to in order to make the incident humorous and ironic.
Limited omniscient/Omniscient
In "The Necklace," this is the inciting moment that leads to the downfall of Mathilde Loisel and her husband.
an invitation to a fancy party
"Pardon! A Balthazar feast!" is an example of this type of reference.
allusion
This was the lesson Atticus taught Scout that she demonstrated she had learned after she walked Boo Radley home.
You never know a person until you walk around in their skin.
This was the main conflict in "Top Man" and the resolution of the conflict.
Man vs Man (external) between Nace and Osborn; resolved when Osborn placed Nace's ax on the summit of K3 to give him credit for being the first to reach the top.
This quote reveals the character traits of this character: "'I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want.'...He was a very silent man by custom. All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs, with a brass telescope."
Billy Bones/the Captain
These are the contrasting themes about death in the poems "Go Down, Death" and "Do not go gentle into that good night."
Death is not the end./Death is inevitable, but we should still fight it.
This (a or b) is the omniscient POV example, along with the words that prove it:
a. "One day, when Ali Baba was in the forest, he saw a troop of men on horseback...He was afraid they were robbers, and climbed into a tree for safety."
b. "I got it in my right leg here." the other replied, "an I think it broke the bone...I guess it'll be weeks before I walk again."
a. (He was afraid.) b. Only words reveal thoughts.
This is the climax of the structure of "The Necklace," and this plot element is left out of the story?
When Mathilde finds out the necklace was fake/denouement
Rostand's tone toward these three characters changes from negative (or slightly negative) to positive toward the end of the play, as they are dynamic characters.
Roxanne, Christian, and DeGuiche
This was the meaning of the symbol "mockingbird and these were the two main "mockingbirds."
an innocent person (Tom, Boo)