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Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100
Literary term defined as: the person who is telling the story
What is the narrator?
100
This is the turning point in the plot where something shifts or creates irreversible change.
What is the climax?
100
A literary term that 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 this literary term.
What is a simile?
100
Objects, people, words or images that stand for or represent something else 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
This is the part of the plot where the building action/events occur.
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 this literary term.
What is a metaphor?
200
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject
What is tone?
300
When the person telling the story is in the story
What is first person point of view?
300
This is 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
A literary device in which 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 outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint
What is third person limited point of view?
400
This is 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 only one trait (like Mr. Ewell) and does not have a complex identity
What is a flat character?
500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing
What is third person omniscient point of view?
500
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.
What is the 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 many different traits--faults as well as virtues (like Atticus)
What is a round character?