Characters
Narrative Arc
Lessons and Feelings
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Final Jeopardy
100
The person that opposes the main character is called the...
A. Protagonist
B. Exposition
C. Antagonist
D. Detagonist
C: Antagonist
100
The turning point of the story is called...
A. Exposition
B. Resolution
C. Inciting Incident
D. Climax
D: Climax
100
The time and place in which the story occurs.
Setting
100
Writing that comes from a writer's imagination is called...
A. Foreshadowing
B. Fiction
C. Biography
D. Non-Fiction
B: Fiction
200
The main character that faces a problem or conflict in a story is called the.....
A. Dynamic Character
B. Antagonist
C. Static Character
D. Protagonist
D: Protagonist
200
Part of the story where suspense builds and complications set in as characters try to resolve the conflict.
A. Rising Action
B. Falling Action
C. Climax
D. Resolution
A: Rising Action
200
The dominant emotion that the reader takes from the story is called the
A. Tone
B. Theme
C. Mood
D. Conflict
C: Mood
200
The teller of the story; either a character in the story or an outside "voice" created by the writer.
Narrator
300
A type of character that is changed by their experience is called....
A. Antagonist
B. Dynamic Character
C. Protagonist
D. Static Character
B: Dynamic Character
300
An event in a story that introduces the conflict. A particular moment when an event thrusts the protagonist into the main action of the story.
A. Climax
B. Inciting Incident
C. Rising Action
D. Exposition
B: Inciting Incident
300
The implied attitude of the author toward his or her subject is called the...
A. Mood
B. Theme
C. Conflict
D. Tone
D: Tone
300
An unexpected reenactment of a past occurrence inserted into the present action.
A. Foreshadowing
B. Climax
C. Flashback
D. Omniscient
C: Flashback
400
A character in a story that stays the same throughout
A. Dynamic Character
B. Antagonist
C. Static Character
D. Protagonist
C: Static Character
400
The beginning of the story that introduces the characters and setting is called...
A. Plot
B. Falling Action
C. Conflict
D. Exposition
D: Exposition
400
The lessons, meaning, or moral of a story. The message or insight about life or human nature that the writer presents to the reader.
Theme
400
A person, place or thing that stands for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
500
The Struggle between opposing forces that is the foundation of a work of literature is called the conflict.
A. Identify the two main types of conflict
B. Define the two types of conflict
A. Internal Conflict and External Conflict
B. Internal Conflict: A character's struggle within herself or himself
External Conflict: A character's struggle against nature or society (other people)
500
Draw and label a narrative arc. Be sure to label the rising action, falling action, climax, resolution and exposition.
500
Point of view refers to who is telling the story.
A. Identify the 3 types of point of view
B. Define the 3 types of point of view
A. First Person, Third Person, Omniscient
B. First Person: Character tells the story from the "I" perspective. Generally uses the words "I", "We", and "Me"
Third Person: Narrator tells the story. Generally uses the words "he", "she", and "it"
Omniscient: Knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters; "god-like"
500
Clues or hints that prepare the reader for what will happen later.
Foreshadowing
500
When a person says something or does something that is different from what we expect them to say or do; what literary term does this describe?
Irony