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Plot
Conflict
Terms
Argument
This and That
100
In this part of the plot, the action reaches the high point of action or suspense.
What is the climax?
100
This type of conflict involves characters being pitted against an outside force. Examples include man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. society.
What is external conflict?
100
This is the time and place of the action of the story.
What is setting?
100
This is a writer's position on an issue or problem.
What is a claim?
100
This is main character in a literary work.
What is the protagonist?
200
In this part of the plot, readers learn the end or final outcome the action.
What is the resolution?
200
This type of conflict involves a struggle that occurs within a character.
What is internal conflict?
200
This is the feeling that an author creates for a reader.
What is mood?
200
This is the opposite site of a writer's claim.
What is the counter-argument?
200
This is the reason for a character's behaviors.
What is character motivation/motivation?
300
In this part of the plot, readers learn the results of the action or decision of the climax.
What is the falling action?
300
This type of conflict involves a character struggling against the weather, an animal, or the sea or jungle.
What is man vs. nature?
300
The attitude a writer takes toward the subject he or she is writing about is called this.
What is tone?
300
This is the expression of the claim that a writer or speaker is trying to support.
What is a thesis statement?
300
This is the reason an author writes.
What is author purpose?
400
In this part of the plot, readers learns background information and introduces the setting and important characters.
What is the exposition?
400
A type of conflict in which the main character battles against the beliefs, traditions, or norm of a group is called this.
What is man vs. society?
400
This is the underlying message about human nature that a writer wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
400
This is materials that serve to prove a claim.
What is supporting evidence?
400
This is a person, place, object, or activity that represents itself as well as something else.
What is a symbol?
500
In this part of the plot, the conflict of the work develops and the story builds to a climax.
What is the rising action?
500
This type of conflict involves the main character struggling with a private decision or problem.
What is man vs. himself?
500
This is the contrast between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
500
This is the central or most important idea about a topic that a writer or speaker conveys.
What is the main idea?
500
A reader making a logical assumption based on observed facts and one's own knowledge experiences is said to be doing/making this.
What is infer or inference?