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
A comparison using like or as
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
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close is known as what vs. the part of the plot where the action begins?
What is the falling and rising action?
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
Which literary term is giving inanimate objects or things human traits?
What is personification
300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300
How does an author create a character?
What is through what they say, do, look like, and how others respond to that character.
300
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
300
When a consonant is repeated at least twice in the beginning words
What is alliteration?
300
What is the difference between foreshadowing vs. flashback?
What is FORESHADOWING= hinting at what will come in the future vs. FLASHBACK= taking readers back in time to an event that already occurred.
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
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is sensory imagery?
400
What are the four types of conflict and which is the only internal type?
What is Man vs. man/nature/society/ self *
400
What is the difference between mood and tone?
What is MOOD= the feeling created in a reader by a text vs. TONE= the attitude of the speaker/writer being expressed.
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
List at least four ways setting is constructed
time, day, place, weather, season, geographic location,
500
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
500
What are the three types of irony and the definitions of each?
What is dramatic (readers know more than the characters), situational (the opposite of what is expected occurs) and verbal (when something is stated, but the opposite is implied/sarcasm)
500
What is the difference between indirect vs. direct characterization?
What is DIRECT: the narrator specifically identifies actual traits for the reader vs. INDIRECT where readers have to infer traits based on the characterization