Author's Craft
A conversation between two characters.
What is dialogue?
The main character.
What is protagonist?
Someone telling you his or her story.
What is first person point of view?
The clouds danced tonight.
What is personification?
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
What is fiction?
When narration of a story is stopped and an earlier time is remembered.
What is flashback?
A characters who changes.
What is a dynamic character?
When the reader is directly addressed with 'you,' 'your' and 'yours.'
What is second person point of view?
You are as sweet as dates fresh from the tree.
What is simile?
The person or personality in the story.
What is character?
Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is nonfiction?
Clues given to what will happen in the future of the text.
What is foreshadowing?
A character who stays the same.
What is a static character?
The perspective when the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third person limited?
I would walk 1000 miles to see your smile.
What is hyperbole?
The series of events of a story from the beginning to the end.
What is plot?
A play for theater, radio, or television.
What is drama?
Marks, signs or words that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
What is symbol?
A character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
What is foil?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters.
What is third person omniscient?
Lora likes lions.
What is alliteration?
The problem the character or characters face in a story.
What is conflict?
A prose narrative with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
What is short story?
The statement, "My aren't you talkative," to someone who never speaks.
What is irony? or What is verbal irony?
The character who tells the story.
Who is the narrator?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The desert was an oven.
What is metaphor?
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
What is the climax?
A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
What is myth?