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The main character in a story
What is a protagonist?
100
Where the story takes place
What is setting?
100
The point of the story where the story is the highest, the turning point
What is the climax?
100
The story is told in this format; uses I and nothing else. Expresses feels
What is first person point of view?
100
When two or more characters have a conversation
What is a dialogue?
200
Romeo and Juliet is an example of this
What is a drama/play?
200
The character that is against the main character
What is the antagonist?
200
The way an author presents his or her ideas
What is style?
200
Something in a story that stands for something else
What is a symbol?
200
A comparison between two dissimilar things; does not use like or as
What is a metaphor?
300
A comparison between two things; uses like or as
What is a simile?
300
A clash between opposing forces in a story
What is a conflict?
300
Background information given in a story
What is exposition?
300
The author's attitude toward a subject
What is tone?
300
Hints the future literary events in a literary work
What is foreshadowing?
400
Extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts
What is personification?
400
The author's choice of words
What is diction?
400
The end of the story; "wrapping things up"
What is the resolution?
400
The hero, outcast and the journey are examples of this term
What are archetypes?
500
Words that sound like the sound they represent
What is personification?
500
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
500
Words that sound like the sound they represent
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Reference to a piece of literature to something historical, mythological, literary, or biblical
What is allusion?
500
Grammatical structure of prose and poetry
What is syntax?