Name That Vocabulary Word
The interrelated series of events that works like a chain to pull the reader forward to each new event.
What is "plot?"
The moment in which the story is at its most emotionally heightened state
What is the "climax?"
A struggle between two characters, between a character and a group, or between a character and a nonhuman force
What is an "external conflict?"
The typical story order in which events are logically sequenced as they would unfold in real time
What is "chronological order?"
True or false: Stories must be framed by a particular fixed time frame.
What is "true?"
The struggle which the main character must endure that hooks the reader's interest
What is "conflict?"
The end of the story in which the struggles of the story are over
What is "the resolution?"
The struggle which takes place within a character, as if he is battling something inside of himself
The technique in which a writer interrupts the flow of events to reflect upon an important anecdote or scene that previously happened
What is a "flashback?"
True or false: writers manipulate time in order to control the reader's emotions and build suspense
What is "true?"
A literary device in which the author jumps ahead to days or years in the future
What is a "flash-forward?"
The main struggle which the main character faces that is in direct opposition to her goal(s) or desire(s)
What is "the conflict?"
The kind of conflict a character who must rebuild her life, home, and family after the devastating 1889 Johnstown Flood would be facing
What is "external conflict?"
The technique in which an author brings the future into the present by hiding hints or clues or what is to come
What is "foreshadowing?"
The charted structure often used to label and identify key moments within a story
What is a "plot diagram?"
The order in which events unfold in real-time - one event after the other
What is "chronological order?"
The opening of the story when the characters and the conflict are introduced
What is the "basic situation?"
The kind of conflict a schizophrenic character who drifts in and out of reality would be facing as he fights for sanity
What is "internal conflict?"
The technique in which a writer reveals what will occur to the character at a later time as if time traveling to the future
What is a "flash-forward?"
The driving force or fuel of a narrative that leads to reader interest and investment
What is "conflict?"
The writer uses this technique to bring the future into the present.
What is "foreshadowing?"
The part of the story in which the main character is met with more problems as he tries to tackle the main conflict
What is "the complication?"
The two entities an internal conflict can take place within
What are "the character's heart or mind?"
The technique being used if the writer describes in detail a tattered, worn scarf discarded o the closet floor and then tells the story of how the scarf was once a treasured heirloom from the 1850s
What is a "flashback?"
The three ways in which a writer skews the time order of a story to share insightful and important moments or to build intrigue
What are "flashbacks, flash-forwards, and foreshadowing?"