Language Technique
This is when you over-exaggerate something to emphasise your point.
What is hyperbole?
The final part of a story’s plot where the main conflict is solved, loose ends are tied up, and the narrative concludes
What is the resolution?
This is the main character in a story, often a hero or central figure
What is a protagonist?
This is the time and place in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is the main narrative tense; describes actions that happened one after the other.
What is the past simple?
This is when you say something is something else to highlight a shared characteristic.
What is a metaphor?
The foundation of the story that sets the scene, introduces the characters and provides necessary backstory.
What is the exposition?
This is the character or force that opposes the protagonist, creating conflict.
What is the antagonist?
This is the written conversation between two or more characters.
What is the dialogue?
This tense sets the scene/background; shows actions in progress at a certain point in the story, which are often interrupted by another action.
What is past continuous?
This is when you give an object human qualities, like emotions or ideas.
What is personification?
This is a specific incident, problem, or obstacle that disrupts the protagonist's normal life and hinders them from achieving their goal.
What is a complication?
This is a universally recognised character type, plot pattern, symbol, or setting that recurs across cultures and time periods, representing fundamental human experiences.
What is an archetype?
This is a literary device that hints at events to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This is used to describe earlier past actions.
What is past perfect?
This is when you use a word that mimics the sound of something happening.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the final resolution or untying of plot complexities following a story's climax. It brings closure by revealing secrets, tying up loose ends, and showing the final outcomes for characters.
What is denouement?
This is the perspective from which a story is told
What is the point of view?
This is the process by which the writer reveals the personality, traits and qualities of a character.
What is characterisation?
This describes longer past actions that continued up until another point in the past; often interrupted by an action in the past simple.
What is the past perfect continuous?
This is a literary device and phonetic quality characterised by a hissing or hushing sound created by repeating sibilant consonants, such as "s," "sh," "z," and "ch".
What is sibliance?
This is the section of a story following the inciting incident where a series of events, obstacles, and conflicts build tension, raise stakes, and deepen character development. It makes up most of the plot, driving the protagonist toward the climax.
What is the rising action?
This is the unique tone and style of the narrator or author
What is narrative voice?
This is the central idea, message or underlying meaning of a story.
What is the theme?
This is one of the tenses used in the following: The king was feeling tired because he hadn't slept all night.
past perfect (he hadn't slept) or past continuous (was feeling tired)