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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 character's inward qualities that can't be seen - only observed.
What is character trait?
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.
What is inference?
200
A conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
200
The feelings and associations that a word suggests.
What is connotation?
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
Any force that drives or moves the character to behave in a certain way.
What is motivation?
300
A figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing has a human trait or does a human action.
What is personification?
300
The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
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 writer tells you directly what the character is like.
What is direct characterization?
400
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
400
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.
What is metaphor?
400
A prose account that is made up rather than true.
What is fiction?
500
The most emotional or suspenseful part of the story.
What is climax?
500
The writer shows your what the character is like through the character's thoughts, actions, and words.
What is indirect characterization?
500
Knows all about the all of the character's problems and events in the story.
What is omniscient narrator?
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
A fictional story that is usually more than one hundred pages long.
What is novel?