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Name four parts of the plot structure.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
When the narrator is inside of the story.
What is 1st person point of view?
Refers to the events in a story that move the plot along by adding complications or expanding the conflict.
What is rising action?
When the narrator is outside of the story, but only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is 3rd person limited point of view?
The character or force in the way of the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
While walking wearily home I wondered where Wally was.
What is alliteration?
The main idea of a work of literature. It is a perception about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. It is not stated directly, but must be inferred.
What is theme?
The punctuation that should be used for the title of a short story...
What is quotation marks?
The sequence of events in a story--generally built around a conflict, it tells what happens, when, and to whom.
What is plot?
The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader- reflects the author's emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work.
What is mood?
The struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The central/main character or hero in a narrative or drama, usually the one with whom the audience tends to identify.
What is the protagonist?
The moment when the reader's interest and emotional intensity reaches the highest point. Often occurs toward the end of the story after the reader has understood the conflict and become emotionally involved with the characters.
What is climax?
Consists of descriptive words or phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader--usually appeals to one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery?
Refers to the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena, and/or animals.
What is personification?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but that have something in common.
What is a metaphor?
A conversation, an episode, or an event that happened before the beginning of a story. Often interrupts the chronological flow of a story to give the reader information to help in understanding a character's present situation.
What is flashback?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the word "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
A character that goes through a change of inner growth during a story.
What is a dynamic character?
The man took 42 million hours to create the perfect sandwich.
What is hyperbole?
A figure of speech where the author refers to a subject matter such as a person, place, event, or literary work in a passing reference.
What is an allusion?
An expression, idea, or element which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning; even to the point of being trite or irritating.
What is cliche?
A reference, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.
What is allusion?
What is a symbolic device in which characters or events in a story represent or symbolize ideas and concepts, usually in order to teach the reader a lesson.
What is allegory?
When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected... (definition and type)
What is situational irony?
When the audience knows something, but the characters in the story do not....(definition and type)
What is dramatic irony?
When someone says, “What nice weather we're having!” in the middle of a blizzard.
What is verbal irony?
When the narrator is outside the story and sees and knows everything
What is 3rd person omniscient point of view?