A minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change.
What is a Static Character?
100
This is one of the two types of conflict in literature.
What is Internal or External Conflict?
100
This is where one thing stand for another.
What is a Symbol?
100
The main idea or insight into life the writer wants the reader to get from the story.
What is Theme?
100
This part introduces the situation, characters, setting, and conflict.
What is Exposition?
200
An easily recognized character in a type of fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful to the narrative.
What is a Flat/Stock Character
200
Man vs. Man is an example of this kind of conflict.
What is External Conflict?
200
This is the feeling created in the reader such as gloom, fear, or happiness.
What is Mood or Atmosphere?
200
The process by which the personality of a fictitious character revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets.
What is Direct Characterization.
200
This occurs after the high point of the story and lets the reader down slowly (sometimes).
What is Falling Action?
300
These characters are fully developed and have both good and bad qualities.
What is Round Character?
300
Man vs. Himself is an example of this kind of conflict.
What is Internal Conflict?
300
This is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is an Inference?
300
This kind of fiction takes place in the past and is characterized chiefly by an imaginative reconstruction of past events and personages.
What is Historical Fiction?
300
The high point of the story; the most exciting part.
What is the Climax?
400
A character that encounters conflict and is changed by it.
What is a Dynamic character?
400
This is the kind of conflict most apparent in Poe's The Masque of the Read Death.
What is External (man vs. fate)
400
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is an Allusion?
400
A story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas abut human like or for a political or historical situation. Theses element express truths about human life.
What is an Allegory
400
The outcome/conclusion/ending (conflict is resolved).
What is Resolution?
500
Ebeneezer Scrooge is a classic example of this kind of character.
What is a Dynamic Character?
500
This is the kind of conflict most apparent in Jackson's The Lottery.
What is Man vs. Fate/Society
500
Occurs when elements of a statement contradict each other. It may appear illogical but actually makes sense.
What is a Paradox.
500
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is Parody?
500
Where the action begins; the part that grabs the reader's attention.