Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Genre
Author's Craft
100

A character/object whose purpose is to emphasize the development taking place in other characters

What/who is the foil?

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 a reference to a literary work, art, historical event, etc  which occurs outside the work of literature

What is an allusion?

100

What is a literary form consisting of letters, poems, texts, or other inserted written material?

What is an epistolary story?

100

What is the literature called when an author from an under-represented group writes about their own experiences from their own perspective?

What are diverse texts?

200

The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?

What is point of view?

200

It is the struggle that occurs between opposing forces in a plot.

What is the conflict?

200

What is an idea or feeling associated with a word, possibly it carries a symbolic meaning.?

What is connotation?

200

This genre means to do or to perform

What is a drama?

200

When the writer's language phrasing is particular to a specific region or group it is called?

What is vernacular?

300

When a character directly engages the reader in the story, this is which point of view?

What is second person point of view?

300

What is it when one draws conclusions from facts or evidence?

What is inferencing?

300

What narrative technique interrupts the linear sequence of events to describe past events? It sometimes gives clues about a character's motivation

What is a flashback?

300

What is a literary work that pokes fun at individual or societal weaknesses. ?

What is a satire or a satirical piece of writing?

300

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

What is author's craft?

400

When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint, this is what point of view?

What is the third person point of view?

400

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 denouement or resolution?

400

This literary term efers to the use of descriptive language that appeals to the reader's senses.

What is  imagery?

400

What is another term for a coming-of-age story?

What is Bildungsroman?

400

When a character uses words to express the opposite of their literal meaning, what it this term called?

What is verbal irony?

500

When a person outside the story tells the actions and thoughts of the characters, this is known as which point of view?

What is an omniscient point of view?

500

The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?

What is the exposition?

500

What is the language we use in everyday speech and writing? Unlike poetry; it lacks the formal structure of meter or rhyme.

What is prose?

500

This genre is a collection of genres that can include fantastical elements as well as hardcore science fiction, fantasy, and horror. What is the name of this genre

What is a speculative fiction?

500

A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues, and shows growth is known as what?

What is a dynamic character?