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100
A brief story that teaches a lesson about human nature. In many of these stories, animals act and speak like human beings.
What is a fable?
100
The turning point of a story or play. The conflict is resolved and the outcome of the plot is clear.
What is climax?
100
A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is simile?
100
One of the characters, using the personal pronoun, I, is telling the story.
What is first person point of view?
100
The story of a real peron's life, written or told by another person.
What is a biography?
200
A fiction based on real or imagined scientific developments. The stories are often set in imaginary places and in the future.
What is science fiction?
200
The time and place of the action. These may include geographic location, historical period (past, present, future), the season of a year, or the time of day.
What is setting?
200
Language that appeals to the senses
What is imagery?
200
The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. From this point of view, you observe the action through the eyes and feelings of only one character in the story.
What is third person limited point of view?
200
A fictional prose narrative that is usually ten to twenty book pages long
What is a short story?
300
A story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other superhuman beings. Most are very old and were handed down orally long before it was put into written form. The story reflects the traditions of the culture that produced them.
What is a myth?
300
A struggle between opposing forces. It can be internal or external.
What is conflict?
300
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing
What is metaphor?
300
The narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems. This all knowing narrator can tell about the characters' past, present, and future. This kind of narrator can even tell what the characters are thinking or what is happening in other places. The narrator is not in the story. Instead, he or she stands above the action, like a god.
What is omnsicient point of view?
300
The story of a person's life, written or told by that person.
What is an autobiography?
400
A story with no known author that originally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth. It contains fantastic element, or events that could not happen in the world as we know it.
What is a folktale?
400
The final stage of the plot--loose ends are tied up and the story is brought to a close.
What is resolution?
400
A figure of speech to which nonhuman or nonliving or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive.
What is personification?
400
I, me, mine, our, my
What are pronouns that authors use when they write in first person point of view?
400
A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination.
What is poetry?
500
A brief story that teaches a lesson about human nature. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while this story generally feature human characters. It is a type of analogy.
What is a parable?
500
This part of the plot tells us who the characters are and what their conflict is.
What is exposition?
500
A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true
What figure of speech?
500
he, his, her, him, she
What are pronouns that authors use when they write in third person point of view?
500
A story written to be acted for an audience.
What is drama?