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Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Author's Moves
Author's Moves, Pt2
Misc.
100
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
A character, image, or pattern that is repeated throughout literature.
What is an archetype?
100
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
100
The type/form of a piece of literature (where you find it on the book shelf)
What is genre?
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 begins is known as what?
What is the rising action?
200
A reference within the book, poem, etc. to another work of literature, art, historical event, or cultural detail.
What is an allusion?
200
When the audience knows more about present of future circumstances than a character in the story.
What is dramatic irony?
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, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close is known as what?
What is the falling action?
300
Hints and clues that tip the reader off to what might come next.
What is foreshadowing?
300
The atmosphere created by a literary work (created by setting, characters, details, language, etc.)
What is mood?
300
When a character is opposed by a larger group.
What is Person v. Society conflict?
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 all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?
What is the resolution?
400
The one who opposes the main character. May be a character, society, nature, a machine, fate, or some aspect of the protagonist's own personality.
What is the antagonist?
400
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is situational irony?
400
A character that shows only one trait and does not change or develop over the course of the story is known as what?
What is a flat or static character?
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
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
500
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme?
500
Some physical thing in the story that is mean to represent a concept, idea, feeling, etc.
What is a symbol?
500
A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues--and changes over the course of the story is known as what?
What is a round or dynamic character?