Who is telling the story?
PLOT Development
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice
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

Which Indigenous territory do we currently reside/live/work/learn on?

Kwikwetlem First Nation

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 characters and setting are introduced?

What is the exposition?

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

When something stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term?

What a symbolism?

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 all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?

What is the resolution or denouement?

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

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?

What is imagery?

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

When the author gives subtle clues as to what will happen later in the story?

What is foreshadowing?

400

The literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions of the setting.

What is mood?

400

When a word is used to represent a sound, this is known as what literary term?

What is onomatopoeia? 

400

The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?

What tone?

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

An interruption of chronological events where writers insert past events, in order to provide background information or context to the current events of a narrative?

What is flashback?

500

The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?

What is theme.

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

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?