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100
The series of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
100
When the character's problems are solved and the story ends.
What is resolution?
100
The central character in a work.
Protagonist
100
The person telling the story using me, I, or any other self-explanatory pronouns.
What is 1st person narrator?
100
The story of a person's life written or told by that person.
What is autobiography?
200
The time and place in which the events of a work of literature occur.
What is setting?
200
The truth about life revealed in a piece of literature. The author's message or moral.
What is theme?
200
Educated guesses based on the evidence available (reading between the lines).
What is inference?
200
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is narrative poem?
300
A struggle of clash between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
300
The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
300
A force that directly opposes the protagonist in a selection.
What is antagonist.
300
An incident in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing has a human trait or does a human action.
What is personification?
300
Who tells the story, and how it is told.
What is point of view.
400
A person or animal who takes part in the action of the story, play, or other work of literary work.
What is character?
400
The four types of conflict.
Man vs. self Man vs. man Man vs. nature Man vs. society
400
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
400
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
400
A prose selection that is made up rather than true.
What is fiction?
500
The most emotional or suspenseful part of the story.
What is climax?
500
Two types of connections.
Text to self; text to text;
500
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
What is alliteration?
500
A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
What is simile?
500
The author's attitude towards his subject.
What is tone?