Parts of a story
What literary term can be defined as the person telling the story?
What is the narrator?
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of what literary term?
What is alliteration?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
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?
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
The part of the plot where the action begins is known as what?
What is the rising action?
A word that imitates the sound it represents describes what literary term?
What is onomatopoeia
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close is known as what?
What is the falling action?
Different words that have the same meaning describes what literary term?
What is a synonym ?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
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?
Words that have opposite meanings describes what literary term?
What is an antonym?
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?
A character that shows only one trait (like Ricky) is known as what?
What is a flat character?
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
Ate and Eight
Flour and Flower
are both examples of what literary term?
What is a homophone?
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?
A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues (like Trevor) is known as what?
What is a round character?