Types of Conflicts
Name that Plot Element
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Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
100

Duncan Junior doesn't like the way his teeth are crooked

What is Character (Man) vs. Self?

100

A series or sequence of events

What is the Plot?

100

The character that goes against the main character.

What is the Antagonist

100

A comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

True or false: Setting can have a big effect on mood

What is True?

200

John has to survive in the wilderness after he gets lost during a camping trip.

What is Character (Man) vs. Nature?

200

Where and when the story takes place

What is the Setting?

200

Wrapping up a story; the events that come after the climax

What is the Falling Action?

200

An extreme exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

200

Any person, animal, or imaginary creature in a story

What is a character?

300

Susan petitions the school board to change the grading policy.

What is Character (Man) vs. Society?

300

What type of conflict involves a character struggling with outside forces?

What is External Conflict?

300

The story comes to a reasonable ending.

What is the resolution?

300

A word that sounds like the sound it names

What is onomatopoeia?

300

A figure of speech where the words have the same beginning sounds together.

What is Alliteration?

400

Frances and Juan get into a fight on the playground.

What is Character vs. Character?

400

The leading character in the story that attempts to resolve the conflict.

What is the protagonist?

400

Where the setting and the characters are identified

What is the Exposition

400

When an object is given human characteristics

What is personification?

400

The feeling created in the reader's mind and that is consistent within the story

What is the mood?

500

Susan is afraid that she is too tall, so she doesn't want to leave the house.

What is Character vs. Self?

500

What type of conflict involves a character struggling with issues or decisions within him or herself?

What is Internal Conflict

500
The events that lead up to the big moment.  They add suspense and conflict.

What is the Rising Action?

500

A common saying with a meaning completely different than the dictionary definition

What is an idiom?

500

A message or lesson of the story

What is theme?