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Story Elements
Theory
Theorists
Supply the Term
Define the Term
100
The turning point in a narrative.
What is the climax?
100
School of theory concerned with gender disparity and discrimination.
What is feminism?
100
Father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
The character primarily opposed to the main character.
What is antagonist?
100
Protagonist
What is the main character of a story?
200
The background information that helps explain the characters, world, or plot.
What is exposition?
200
School of theory concerned with class struggle and the means of production.
What is Marxism?
200
Queer theorist who claims that gender is a performance that can be changed.
Who is Judith Butler?
200
The character who emphasizes the qualities of the main character, usually by differing slightly.
What is foil?
200
Genre
What is a category commonly used to divide the arts?
300
The part of the story immediately following the turning point in the narrative.
What is falling action?
300
School of theory concerned with humanity's relation to the physical world.
What is ecocriticism?
300
Critical race theorist who brought greater awareness of intersectionality to feminism.
Who is bell hooks?
300
Figurative language used for comparison using "like" or "as."
What is simile?
300
Hyperbole
What is extreme exaggeration?
400
The bulk of most stories, in which characters encounter obstacles and develop.
What is rising action?
400
Theoretical approach concerned with the collapse of identity and a playful awareness of genre.
What is postmodernism?
400
Ecocritic who revealed the tendency to naturalize social binaries.
Who is Kate Soper?
400
Figurative language that replaces one concept with a closely associated concept. "The pen is mightier than the sword."
What is metonymy?
400
Metaphor
What is figurative language that uses one image in place of another to illustrate a comparison?
500
The literary term for "resolution."
What is denouement?
500
School of theory that questions the intersection of humanity and technology.
What is posthumanism?
500
Semiotician who contributed the idea that signs slip and become signifiers for other signs.
Who is Rolande Barthes?
500
A story that uses a simple narrative to convey a political or religious message.
What is allegory?
500
Synecdoche
What is figurative language in which a part of the whole is used to refer to the whole concept?