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Figuratively Speaking
Poetry in Motion
Plot It Out
Character Round-Up
Potpourri
100
Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike.
What is a simile?
100
A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea which appeals to one or more of our senses.
What is imagery?
100
This usually occurs at the beginning of a short story. Here the characters are introduced. We also learn about the setting of the story. Most importantly, we are introduced to the main conflict (main problem).
What is the exposition, introduction or beginning?
100
0ften provides support and illuminates the protagonist. _____________character.
What is minor or supporting?
100
Narrator is unnamed/unidentified (a detached observer). Does not assume character's perspective and is not a character in the story. The narrator reports on events and lets the reader supply the meaning. ___________ point of view.
What is objective or 3rd person?
200
States a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison.
What is a metaphor?
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
200
This is the turning point of the story. Usually the main character comes face to face with a conflict. The main character will change in some way.
What is the climax?
200
Major character at the center of the story.
What is the protagonist?
200
Discrepancy between what characters know and what readers know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.
What is personification?
300
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
What is free verse or prose?
300
The story comes to a reasonable close, the reader finds out what happens to the characters after the conflict has been resolved.
What is the resolution, conclusion or ending?
300
A character or force that opposes the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
300
Narrator is part of the story and participates in action but sometimes has limited knowledge/vision. ___________ point of view.
What is 1st person?
400
Repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
400
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
What is meter?
400
This part of the story begins to develop the conflict(s). A building of interest or suspense occurs.
What is the rising action?
400
A character who remains the same throughout the plot.
What is a static or flat character?
400
A suggestion of what is going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
500
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
What is rhyme?
500
All loose ends of the plot are tied up. The conflict(s) and climax are taken care of.
What is falling action?
500
A character who changes in some important way throughout the plot.
What is a round or dynamic character?
500
All-knowing narrator (multiple perspectives). The narrator can take us into the mind of the character and can evaluate a character for the reader.
What is omniscient?