Character
The Main Character.
What is the protagonist?
The struggle or problem between two opposing forces in a story which drives the plot.
What is conflict?
Descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
The person who writes the story, poem, or book, and creates the character, plot, and setting.
Who is the author?
The opposite of what is expected happens or is said.
What is irony?
The character that opposes the main character.
What is the antagonist?
A struggle between a character and an outside force.
What is an external conflict?
When an object, person, or events stands for something bigger than itself, often representing an idea or theme.
What is symbolism?
The perspective from with the story is told; it can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.
What is point-of-view?
When something happens that is the opposite of what is expected.
What is situational irony?
The character that represents a common idea or type.
What is a stereotype?
A struggle that takes place inside a character's mind.
What is internal conflict?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
What is the setting?
The audience knows something in a story but the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
A character who makes an important change over the course of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
Hatchet is an example of this kind of conflict.
What is character vs nature?
When human qualities or abilities are given to something nonhuman like animals, objects, or ideas.
What is personification?
The beginning part of the story where characters, setting, and basic conflict are introduced.
What is exposition?
When someone says something but means the opposite.
What is verbal irony?
When the author shows the character's personality through their actions, words, thoughts, and looks.
What is indirect characterization?
The three types of external conflict.
What are character vs character, character vs society, and character vs nature?
Two opposite or contradictory words are used together to create a new meaning. (bittersweet)
What is oxymoron?
This author wrote a book where the narrator is Death.
Who is Markus Zusak?
A type of dramatic irony where the audience is aware that a tragedy awaits the story’s characters, though the characters themselves do not know this.
What is tragic irony?