A character who stays the same throughout a story.
What is a static character?
100
This is the literary term for when a character in a story breaks from their present narration to tell you about something that happened in the past before returning to the present time.
What is flashback?
100
The faintest glow of moonlight fought its way through the clouds and drifted down onto the darkened campus.
What is personification?
100
A type of conflict where a character struggles with his/her conscience.
a. person v. person (external conflict)
b. person v. nature
c. person v. self (internal conflict)
d. person v. animal
What is c. person v. self (internal conflict)?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! Because "And miles to go before I sleep" is repeated twice in Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," it would be an example of this poetry term.
What is a refrain?
200
The character who is in conflict with the protagonist. Penn Webb from Crash is an example.
What is the antagonist?
200
This is the literary term for when the author gives hints about something that is going to happen in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
"He saw how the Infected clustered around certain buildings, like maggots at a wound."
What is a simile?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! An example of this reading term from the novel Hachiko Waits is Shibuya Train Station in the year 1930.
What is the setting?
300
"Channel five is all jive" is an example of this type of rhyme because it occurs within the line of the poem.
What is internal rhyme?
300
The term for the main character in a story; often the narrator.
What is the protagonist?
300
The overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature, as determined by the reader.
a. theme
b. mood
c. tone
d. foreshadowing
What is b. mood?
300
"But now he was a monstrous creature, with mighty metallic muscles that were visible beneath his shirt."
What is alliteration?
300
The term for a single line of a poem.
What is a verse?
400
The title of TV show "I Found the Gown" on TLC exhibits this type of rhyme. (HINT: This is not a poem, so just look at the rhyming words)
What is partial rhyme?
400
The term for a character whose situation you can understand, sympathize with, or relate to.
What is a sympathetic character?
400
This is one of the story elements. It's the term for the most exciting point in a story; the turning point.
What is climax?
400
"Boom! Mr. Harrison swung a huge fist into the science block doors."
What is onomatopoeia?
400
If Jenny asks for a "cup of joe" at Starbucks, she is using this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
500
The formal term for any literature that is not poetry.
What is prose?
500
A character that you do not know well. (HINT: This could be one of the main characters.)
What is a flat character?
500
"It's 1 am and you're supposed to be asleep. But instead you're wide awake, and your mind is swirling with worries. Baseball tryouts are next week and you HAVE to make the travel team. State tests are coming up. And what's with your best friend ignoring you at lunch? Just when you squeeze your eyes shut to sleep, you remember you have a vocab test tomorrow. Now you're wide awake worrying!
What is the author's TONE of the above excerpt?
a. soothing
b. depressed
c. light-hearted
d. nervous
What is d. nervous?
500
Goldilocks complained that her Starbucks latte was too hot.
What is allusion?
500
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