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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
Main character of a story ~ usually the "good" guy
What is a protagonist?
100
The lesson learned by the main character.
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 uses the pronouns, "I" "me" "we" and "us."
What is first person?
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
Traits that we can see in a character.
What are physical characteristics?
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: "Henry wasn't going to let them get to him, because he didn't want to cry in front of them."
What is third person?
500
The part of a story in which tension rises and keeps rising until the climax.
What is the rising action?
500
Character traits such as insecure, defiant, depressed, positive, anxious, gullible
What are personality characteristics?
500
When an author gives you clues about what is going to happen in a novel.
What is foreshadowing?
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?