A person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is a character?
100
A literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the sequence of events. They are often presented as a memory of the narrator or of another character.
What is a flashback?
100
The author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story. Writers use this to build their readers' expectations and to create suspense. This is used to help readers prepare for what is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
100
The time and place of the action. Can include details of: time (year, day, season, weather); place (country, state, region, community, neighborhood, etc.)
What is setting?
100
In a plot diagram, background information is given about the characters and setting. It is the set-up of a story. There can also be an inciting incident.
What is exposition?
200
A character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
200
The main character in a literary work.
What is a protagonist?
200
Told by a character who uses the first-person pronoun "I".
What is first person?
200
The perspective, or vantage point, from which the story is told. It is the relationship of the narrator to the story.
What is point of view?
200
The growing interest and excitement readers experience while awaiting a climax or resolution in a work of literature. It is a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events. Writers this by raising questions in the minds of their readers.
What is suspense?
300
In a plot diagram, this includes a series of events and actions. There are internal and/or external conflicts with increasing suspense.
What is rising action?
300
The point of view where the narrator uses third-person pronouns such as "he" "she" to refer to the characters. We know the thoughts and actions of ALL the characters.
What is third-person omniscient.
300
The point of view where the narrator uses third-person pronouns such as "he" "she" to refer to the characters. We know the thoughts and actions of one character.
What is third-person limited?
300
Is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Writer's may use many devices to create this, including images, dialogue, setting and plot. It can remain the same throughout or change dramatically.
What is mood?
300
This is a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work. It may be communicated through words and details that express particular emotions and that evoke an emotional response from the reader. For example, word choice or phrasing may seem to convey respect, anger, lightheartedness, or sarcasm.
What is tone?
400
In a plot diagram, this is the peak of the action. It is the turning point in a story. Things will begin to get better of a lot worse.
What is climax?
400
In a plot diagram, this is near the end of the story. The conflicts that were presented throughout the story are resolved.
What is resolution?
400
In a plot diagram, this is where the main conflict unravels. The main character either wins or loses.