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Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
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
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term? Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"
What is a symbol?
200
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
200

This refers to the the organizational pattern of the work, paragraphs, sentence or plot elements.

What is the structure?

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
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300

This is an organization structure where the author shifts to an event that happened in the past.

What is the flashback?

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
An author's specific way of writing, word choices, etc. describes what literary term?
What is style?
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

This is the effect of a non-linear timeline, such as the use of flashback or foreshadowing.  

What is the tension or suspense?

400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is sensory imagery?
400
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?
400

An author's choice of words that has an emotional overtone.

What is a connotation?

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

This is when the authors begins a story in the middle of the action.

What is the medias res?

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

This describes a subtle change in a character, the setting, or the syntax the author uses.

What is a shift?