Who is telling the story? Point of View
The most open and flexible POV available to writers. As the name implies, a narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing.
What is the third person omniscient point of view?
The greatest action or suspense in a story, also described as the turning point.
What is the climax?
A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.
What is a foreshadowing?
A literary device such as "The boy ran like the wind".
What is a simile?
The main character or hero of the story
What is the protagonist?
The view from which a story is being told.
What is point of view?
The first part of a text during which the tension between the characters builds.
What is rising action?
The time and place of the story.
What is the setting?
A literary device such as "Life is a box of chocolates".
What is a metaphor?
The force or character who opposes the main character or hero.
What is the antagonist?
When a character in the story tells the story using pronouns such as I, we, us, and me.
What is first person point of view?
It is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story.
What is the exposition?
The message the author wants to convey to the reader.
What is theme?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
Who recounts the events of a novel
What is the narrator?
Where the narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single protagonist, referring to them by name or using a third person pronoun such as they/she/he.
What is third person limited point of view?
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been resolved.
What is falling action?
This is used in poetry and novels to create a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
A literary device such as "The brother of the brave brown bear is a cowardly lion".
What is alliteration?
The story term to describe a person or animal who is a part of the story.
What is a character?
When the author uses the pronoun “you” to address the reader.
What is second person point of view?
The end of the story where the protagonist deals with the information he/she has learned. This is how the story ends.
What is resolution?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom".
What is hyperbole?
Words that describe character's personality or qualities that make them who they are.
What are character traits?