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Plot
Character
Miscellaneous
Style
Poetry
100
a problem faced by characters
What is conflict?
100
people who make up a story
What are characters?
100
two elements that make up setting
What are time and place?
100
a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
a poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
200
The turning point of a story
What is climax?
200
the way a writer reveals character
What is characterization?
200
the feeling that can be created by setting
What is mood?
200
a direct comparison of two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
200
the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhythm?
300
the last part of the plot; the end of a story
What is resolution?
300
when a writer simply tells the reader that a character is mean or thrifty or brave or honest
What is direct characterization?
300
the message about life that a reader takes away from a story
What is theme?
300
speaking of nonhuman or inanimate objects as if they had human or lifelike qualities
What is personification?
300
two consecutive rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
400
events that delay the resolution of a conflict
What are complications?
400
when a writer shows a character in action and allows the reader to decide what kind of person he or she is
What is indirect characterization?
400
a short retelling of a story
What is a summary?
400
the way a writer uses language
What is style?
400
the use of words with sounds that imitate their meanings
What is onomatopoeia?
500
plots that are part of the larger story but are not as important
What are subplots?
500
why people or characters behave the way they do
What is motivation?
500
a reference to literature or history
What is an allusion?
500
people, places, or events that stand for something beyond themselves
What are symbols?
500
a poem of mourning
What is an elegy?