Plot
This part of the plot includes events that build suspense and lead up to the most intense moment.
What is Rising Action?
This point of view uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” and “my,” and the narrator is part of the story.
What is first person point of view?
This literary device occurs when a story shifts backward in time to show an earlier event.
What is flashback?
This climax occurs in the Most Dangerous Game.
What is Rainsfords refusal to hunt other humans and becomes the prey.
This type of conflict occurs when a character struggles with their own thoughts, feelings, or decisions.
What is internal conflict?
This final part of the plot reveals how the conflict is solved and how the story ends.
What is Resolution?
If the story is told directly by a character using “I walked into the forest and felt afraid,” it is written in this point of view.
What is first person point of view?
This type of irony occurs when a character says the opposite of what they really mean.
What is verbal irony?
This is the most intense turning point when Jim and Della reveal their Christmas gifts and realize they have both sacrificed the very thing the other needed.
What is the moment when Jim gives Della the combs and Della gives Jim the watch chain?
In The Interlopers, the feud between Ulrich and Georg—and later their battle against nature—are examples of this broader category of conflict.
What is external conflict?
This part of the plot introduces the characters, setting, and main conflict.
What is Exposition?
This type of narration uses “he,” “she,” or “they” and reveals the thoughts of only one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
In a story, a girl loudly claims, “Oh great, I just love getting homework over break,” but she actually hates it. This is an example of this type of irony.
What is verbal irony?
This turning point happens when Eckels returns from the past and realizes that his small mistake has changed the future.
What is the moment when Eckels discovers the world has changed after stepping off the path and crushing the butterfly?
This type of conflict happens between a character and an outside force such as another person, nature, or society.
What is external conflict?
These events occur after the climax and show the conflict beginning to resolve.
What is Falling Action?
If a narrator describes what several characters are thinking in different locations, the story is written in this point of view.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
This type of irony happens when the outcome is the opposite of what the reader expects.
What is situational irony?
This is the most intense moment when Fortunato understands that Montresor has lured him into a deadly trap.
What is the moment when Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall and begins sealing him behind bricks?
This type of conflict occurs in the Gift of the Magi when Della has to decide to cut off her hair to get money to buy Jim a present.
What is character vs. him or herself (internal conflict)?
This is the turning point of the story and the most intense moment.
What is the climax?
This point of view allows the narrator to know the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
This type of irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
This turning point occurs when Ulrich and Georg, trapped under the tree, finally reconcile—only to discover that the approaching figures are not rescuers.
What is the moment when they realize the approaching men are actually wolves?
In The Most Dangerous Game, the struggle between Rainsford and General Zaroff is an example of this type of conflict.
What is character vs. character?