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Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100
What 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
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
100
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term? Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"
What is a symbol?
200
The view from which a story is being told is known as what 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
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
200
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close is known as what?
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
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
300

What type of character undergoes a personality change/revelation through the story?

Dynamic

400
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint, this is what point of view?
What is third person point of view?
400
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?
What is the resolution?
400

This invokes certain feelings in readers through use of specific words and descriptions

Mood

400
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is irony?
400
A character that shows only one trait (like Mrs. Mitty) is known as what?
What is a flat character?
500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, this is known as which point of view?
What is omniscient point of view?
500
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
500

when the author specifically reveals traits about the character in a straightforward manner.

Direct Characterization

500
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
500

Name the 4 different types of conflict and say if they are external or internal.

MvMan, MvSelf, MvSociety, MvNature