Story Vocabulary
Elements of Plot
Types of Conflict
Types of Characters
Figurative Language
100

the main character in the story

What is a Protagonist?

100

Characters, setting, and basic situations are revealed

What is the Exposition?

100

These are the two main types of conflict

What is internal and external conflict?

100

This is a character that you do not know well.

What is a Flat Character?

100

a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

What is a Simile?

200

The chain of events that make up a story.

What is the plot?

200

moves the plot along, where complications arise

What is the Rising Action?

200

This is a struggle between a character and his feelings, conscience, or fear.

What is Man vs Self?

200

A character that you know a lot about

What is a Round Character?

200

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

What is a hyperbole?

300

The character or force in a conflict with the protagonist.

What is the Antagonist?

300

the most exciting or intense part of the story for the protagonist

What is the Climax?

300

This is a struggle between a character and the laws or beliefs of a group. 

What is Man vs Society?

300

A character that stays the same throughout the story

What is a Static Character?

300

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

What is personification?

400

The time and place of a story

What is the setting?

400

Events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution

What is the Falling Action?

400

This is a struggle between two characters

What is Man vs Man?

400

A character who undergoes an important inner change

What is a Dynamic Character?

400

a reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, etc. 

What is an allusion?

500

Problems that arise as characters struggle to reach their goals

What are complications?

500

the end of the story, conflicts resolved

What is the Resolution?

500

This is a struggle between a character and weather, animals, or sickness.

What is Man vs Nature?

500

A character whose situation you understand, sympathize with, or relate to

What is a Sympathetic Character?

500

a group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from its individual meaning

What is an idiom?