What do you call the pictures the author creates in your mind as you read?
100
Exposition
Where do we first meet the characters and learn about their world?
100
Evidence directly from the text
To support your opinions, always back them up with what?
200
Protagonist
I drive the plot! Its my journey you readers follow.
200
Theme
What is the central topic or idea of the story?
200
Symbol
What represents an idea, feeling, or emotion?
200
Falling Action
What do you call the part of the plot where the conflict is in the process of being solved and the protagonist regains confidence in their ability to triumph?
200
How can character be revealed indirectly?
What is, other characters reactions, comments, and thoughts?
300
Follow this character to learn the story's theme
What is protagonist?
300
Point of View
What do you call the perspective of the narrative being told?
300
Unreliable Narrator
What is a flawed, biased, or untrustworthy narrator called?
300
Rising Action
Where do we learn about the conflict and see the protagonist engage in their quest?
300
What literary element makes you want to read more and predict the story's events.
What is Suspence?
400
Character BEAT
What acronym represents the Behaviors, Emotions, Appearance, and Thoughts of a character?
400
Setting
What is the term for the location and time period of a story?
400
Internal Conflict
What do you call a conflict where the protagonists is agonizing over a decision in their mind or feeling in their heart?
400
Climax
What is the protagonist's most stressful, dangerous, or troubled time?
400
Man vs. Self, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Nature
What are the 4 main types of conflicts?
500
Antihero
What kind of protagonist is heroic and villainous at the same time.
500
Foreshadow and Flashback
What two literary elements allow the author to tell parts of a story out of the normal time sequence?
500
Allegory
What is an extended metaphor that uses all the story's symbols to teach a universal truth?
500
Call to Action
What disrupts the protagonist's ordinary life and prompts him/her to start an adventure?
500
A protaginist can struggle with more than one of these in the story.