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Figurative Language
Character
Plot
Miscellaneous
Conflict
100
Mrs. Vanderpool is like a python, squeezing answers out of students.
What is simile?
100
The main character.
What is the protagonist?
100
This stage of plot occurs immediately after the highest point of literary action.
What is falling action?
100
When and where the story takes place.
What is setting?
100
This kind of conflict is found when characters face things such as blizzards or tornadoes.
What is man vs. nature?
200
He carried around the picture of his dad with him everywhere; it was a security blanket, bringing him peace in difficult times.
What is a metaphor?
200
This character undergoes an important change from the beginning to the end of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
200
Tension builds in this stage of plot as the conflict grows.
What is rising action?
200
An object that stands for an idea in a work of literature.
What is a symbol?
200
Racism. Other forms of discrimination.
What is man vs. society?
300
English class was an eternity today. I feared I might retire before it ended.
What is hyperbole?
300
This character is a stereotype, not developed. We don't know much about him or her, so the character isn't real to us.
What is a flat character?
300
The highest point of the action, this stage of plot showcases a sort of "showdown" between the protagonist and antagonist.
What is climax?
300
If an author gives little hints about what could happen later in a story, it is this.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Most stories involve this kind of conflict: characters experiencing problems with one another.
What is man vs. man?
400
My alarm surprised me with its rudeness every single day.
What is personification?
400
This character gets in the way of what the main character wants.
What is the antagonist?
400
This stage of plot provides background information about the characters and setting, as well as other details.
What is exposition?
400
What would it be called if MVP was kidnapped by aliens after making fun of a student who believed in UFO's?
What is irony?
400
This type of conflict could include most of the examples we've learned, since it involves things outside of the character himself.
What is external conflict?
500
"Hey, what is this? Alcatraz? Can't we do anything?" the new kid snapped, angry that the school was very strict.
What is an allusion?
500
What a character says, does, or thinks. What other characters feel about a character. What the narrator tells us about a character.
What is characterization?
500
Another word for resolution.
What is denouement?
500
The words and phrases an author chooses to use in telling the story, this can include word choice, sentence structure, and figurative language.
What is style?
500
This type of conflict is the same as man vs. self because the conflict happens within a character.
What is internal conflict?