Figurative Language 1
Provide the Term:
The main character of the story.
What is the protagonist.
Provide the Term:
The character who opposes the main character.
What is the antagonist.
What is the difference between 1st and 3rd POV?
1st Person = The narrator is in the story and uses "I", "me", "we" pronouns
3rd Person = The narrator is not in the story and uses "he", "she", "they" pronouns
Define Conflict.
Provide the Term:
The sequence of events that keep the story moving.
What is plot.
Provide the Term:
The central message or lesson of the story.
What is the theme.
Provide the Term:
The time and place in which the characters live/exist.
What is the setting.
What are the three types of 3rd Person POV?
What is omniscient, limited, and objective.
Provide the Type of Conflict:
A character is battling a tiger.
Person v. Nature
Provide the Term:
The beginning of the story when the reader learns about the main character, setting, and conflict.
What is the exposition.
Define an Inference.
What is an educated guess.
Provide the Term:
A work of fiction presenting a sequence of events.
What is a short story.
Provide the Term:
The narrator knows all of the characters thoughts and feelings.
What is 3rd person omniscient.
Provide the Type of Conflict:
The Grinch battling the citizens of Whoville.
Person v. Society
Provide the Term:
The turning point of the story.
What is the climax.
Provide the Term:
How the author feels about the text/subject.
What is tone.
Provide the Term:
How the reader feels about the subject/text.
What is the mood.
Provide the Term:
The narrator knows one of the characters thoughts and feelings.
What is 3rd person limited.
Provide the Type of Conflict:
A character is dealing with anxiety before a performance.
Person v. Self
Provide the Term:
The ending of the story where the conflict is resolved in some way. Bonus - Double your points if you can provide the other name for this term.
What is the resolution or denouement.
What is the difference between suspense and foreshadowing?
Suspense is the intense feeling a reader gets when waiting for an outcome, while foreshadowing is when an author hints at what will happen next in the story.
Define Irony.
Bonus: Double your points if you can name the three types of irony and provide their definitions.
When a character says/does something that the reader/audience does not expect.
Provide the Term:
The narrator knows none of the characters thoughts/feelings.
What is 3rd person objective.
Provide an example (either in movies or literature) of Character v. Character conflict.
(Provide own example)
List each of the plot elements (5) in order.
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement.