Freytag's Plot Diagram
The name of the term that refers to when and where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is another name for the main character in a story.
What is a protagonist?
This term is when there is a comparison of two things using "like" or "as."
Example: "She's as prickly as a cactus and very difficult to get along with!"
What is a simile?
This is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
Example: "Barry the batter beat the baseman."
What is alliteration?
This is the largest state in the United States by land area.
What is Alaska?
The main problem of the story is called this.
What is the conflict / inciting incident?
The name of the word that refers to what a work is really about without mentioning anything specific about the plot, characters, or setting.
What is theme?
This term is when there is a comparison of two things by saying something is something it is not.
Example: "They are shining stars."
What is a metaphor?
This is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named.
Example: "Jingle jangle went the sleigh bells."
What is an onomatopoeia?
This was the first sport to be broadcast on national television.
What is baseball?
The emotional high point/turning point of a story is called this.
What is the climax?
This word means to use other words, people, objects, or situations to represent something other than their literal meaning?
What is symbolism?
This is the act of giving something nonhuman human-like characteristics.
Example: "The football jumped out of the player's hand."
What is personification?
This is a reference to an outside work.
Example: "Stop trying so hard, Romeo."
What is an allusion?
There are this many spikes are in the crown of the Statue of Liberty.
What is seven?
This is what the part after a story's emotional high point is called.
What is falling action / denouement?
This is when an author hints to the reader what a character is like instead of outright telling them.
What is indirect characterization?
This term means an extreme exaggeration.
Example: "I'm dying of boredom!"
What is a hyperbole?
This is a common, non-literal saying.
Example: "Time flies when you're having fun!"
What is an idiom?
This US city’s name translates to “the meadows” in Spanish.
What is Las Vegas?
The part of a story that builds conflict through decisions made by the main character is called this.
What is rising action?
The feeling or impression the author creates with their writing is called this.
This is a type of metaphor that doesn't directly compare two things, but implies a comparison.
Example: "She lured him right into her web!"
What is an implied metaphor?
This is a play on words for a humorous effect.
Example: "He had photographic memory, but never developed it."
What is a pun?
This King in a standard deck of cards does not have a moustache.
What is the King of Hearts?