Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100

The person telling the story.

What is the narrator?

100

The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs.

What is the climax?

100

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.

What is point of view?

200

The part of the plot where the action begins.

What is the rising action?

200

The time and place of the action in a literary work.

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 from his or her perspective.

What is first person point of view?

300

The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close.

What is the falling action?

300

The sequence of events in a literary work.

What is the plot?

300

When something nonhuman is given human characteristics.

What is personification?

300

An author's specific way of writing, word choices, etc. 

What is style?

400

When an unknown person tells the story using words like he, she, and they.

What is 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.

What is the resolution?

400

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses.

What is imagery?

400

A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant.

What is irony?

400

A character that shows little to no change throughout the story.

What is a flat character?

500

When the person telling the story knows everything.

What is omniscient point of view?

500

The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.

What is the introduction or exposition?

500

The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work.

What is theme.

500

A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom."

What is a hyperbole?

500

A character that shows great change and growth throughout the story.

What is a round character?