Plot
Character
Point of View
Setting/Theme
Grab Bag
100

It's the part of the plot that wraps up the story and provides the final outcome.

What is resolution?

100

When the author reveals a character’s personality through the character’s own words and actions or through what other other characters say about him or her, it's called this kind of characterization.

What is indirect?

100

This is another name for the storyteller.

What is a narrator?

100

The setting of a story tells where it takes place and this.

What is when it takes place?

100

The different parts or qualities of a character's personality are called this.

What are traits?

200

It's the moment of highest tension; the turning point.

What is climax?

200

This kind of character is complex and has many different traits.

Round

200

In this point-of-view, the story is told by the author or storyteller outside of the story.

What is third-person?

200

The overall feeling that readers get from a story, often based on details such as setting, is called this.

What is atmosphere?

200

The kind of character who only has one or two traits is called this.

What is flat?

300

It occurs when anxiety builds about what will happen next; it's what makes you want to keep reading.

What is suspense?

300

This kind of character changes his or her personality throughout the story.

What is dynamic?

300

This kind of narrator is a character in the story.

What is first-person?

300

A story's theme is a generalization, which means it can apply to these people.

What is anyone or everyone?

300

It's situational when there is a difference between expectation and reality. 

What is irony?

400

Clues or hints about something that occurs later in a story.

What is foreshadowing?

400

The reason behind a character's actions; it's what drives a character to behave in a certain way.

What is motivation?

400

This kind of third-person narrator can tell us what any or all of the characters are thinking.

What is omniscient?

400

Themes are rarely stated -- we usually have to infer them from the events of the story, which means they are this.

What is implied?

400

This kind of irony occurs when what we say is the opposite of what we mean.

What is verbal?

500

A struggle between two opposing forces, it drives the plot forward.

What is conflict?

500

This kind of character remains the same throughout a short story.

What is static?
500

When the narrator does not have an omniscient perspective, but may have access to the thoughts and feelings of one character, it is called this.

What is limited?

500
A story's theme cannot be stated in a word -- that's a topic! A theme must be phrased as this.

What is a sentence?

500

This kind of conflict occurs inside a character.

What is internal?