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Point of View
Plot
Characterization
Theme
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100
The eyes through which an author tells a story.
What is point of view?
100
Problem that creates tension and drama.
What is the conflict?
100
Most important person in the story.
What is a protagonist?
100
The message of the story.
What is theme?
100
The time and place of a story's action.
What is the setting?
200
A story told from viewpoint of character in the story ("I')
What is first person (limited) point of view?
200
The moment when the action comes to its highest point.
What is the climax?
200
The character who plays against main character.
What is an antagonist?
200
The writer or character tells the reader the message.
What is stated theme?
200
The part of a story following climax and leading to resolution.
What is falling action?
300
The narrator tells the story (he/she).
What is third person (omniscient) point of view?
300
The part of the story when the problem is solved.
What is the resolution?
300
Qualities that make up a character's personality.
What are character traits?
300
The reader has to infer the message to him/herself.
What is implied theme?
300
The overall feeling created by details and images used by a writer to describe a setting.
What is mood?
400
The point of view that presents thought going on inside character's head.
What is stream of consciousness?
400
The part of the story where the author introduces the essentials of a story to a reader (characters, setting, dramatic situation)
What is the exposition?
400
Person of less importance in story but helps plot develop.
What is a minor character?
400
A person, place, or thing that stands for something beyond self.
What is a symbol?
400
Any obstacle that increases tension of the story.
What is a complication?
500
The point of view of this sentence: "I wasn't going to let them get me."
What is first person?
500
The part of a story in which tension rises and keeps rising until the climax.
What is the rising action?
500
Character who shows several sides of personality and grows and changes throughout the story.
What is a round character?
500
In fiction, this usually expresses the author's view about life and how people behave.
What is theme?
500
A dramatic scene that takes the reader out of chronological order and back to an earlier time in the novel.
What is a flashback?