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PLOT
CONFLICT
CHARACTER
Literary Terms
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Define plot.
What is the series of events making up a story.
100
Define conflict.
What is the problem in the story.
100
Define character.
What is any person, animal, or thing that is involved in the action of a piece of literature.
100
Define flashback.
What is a device used in literature to visit the past, usually told as a memory.
100
Define foreshadowing.
What is a hint as to what is about to happen in the story.
200
Define exposition.
What is the beginning of the story; characters and setting are introduced.
200
Define internal conflict.
What is a conflict experienced within a character.
200
Define characterization.
What is the author's method of revealing characters to the reader.
200
Define setting.
What is the time and place in which a story occurs.
200
Why does Victor in "Seventh Grade" try to speak French?
What is to impress Teresa?
300
Define rising action.
What is the part of the story where the conflict is introduced to the reader leading up to the climax of the story.
300
The different types of external conflict.
What is character vs. character, character vs. society, character vs. nature
300
Define round character.
What is a well developed character.
300
Define point of view.
What is the perspective from which the story is narrated.
300
Compare the main characters from "Seventh Grade" and "Stolen Day".
What is Victor from "Seventh Grade" and the narrator from "Stolen Day" both try to get attention.
400
Define climax.
What is the high point of action in a story.
400
Identify the conflict as internal or external. Rikki Tikki Tavi wants to fight Nagaina for trying to kill his family.
What is external (character vs. character)
400
Define dynamic character.
What is a character that undergoes some type of change within the story.
400
Define protagonist.
What is the main character in a story.
400
The lesson "Bear Boy" teaches us.
What is it teaches the importance of loving and teaching children?
500
Define falling action.
What is the events of the story between the climax and the resolution. Significant changes are evident in the protagonist.
500
Identify the following as either internal or external conflict. Greg in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" struggles to make good grades.
what is internal conflict?
500
Is it possible for a character to be both round and flat or both dynamic and static?
What is no.
500
Define antagonist.
What is the person or force against whom the protagonist struggles.
500
The lesson Lemon Brown teaches Greg in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown".
What is a father's achievements can be a treasure he passes on to inspire his children.