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Protagonist
Who is the main character in a story?
100
Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
100
This author wrote The Red Badge of Courage.
Who is Stephen Crane?
200
Antagonist
What is the person or force that the protagonist must fight against?
200
The person who tells the story
Who is the narrator?
200
An indirect comparison.
What is a metaphor?
200
A type of writing that does not have a mechanical structure.
What is prose?
200
This poet is an Acoma Indian.
Who is Simon Ortiz?
300
foil
What is a character that serves as a contrast to the protagonist?
300
The perspective through which the characters, events, and other details are viewed.
What is the point of view?
300
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
300
A style or category of writing.
What is a genre?
300
This author killed himself at age 46.
Who is David Wallace Foster?
400
static characters
What are characters that do not change over the course of the story?
400
A character's conflict with an outside source.
What is an external conflict?
400
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
400
If a story projects into the future.
What is flash forward?
400
This author was part of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who was Langston Hughes?
500
Superman, the characters in "The Open Boat"
What is an archetype character?
500
The type of narrator who has access to the thoughts of more than one character.
What is an omniscient narrator?
500
A reference in a work to another work, a time in history,or the Bible.
What is an allusion?
500
A type of poetry that puts words on a page without a particular form or pattern.
What is free verse?
500
This author wrote his first story in the third grade.
Who was George Sanders?