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Plot
Language
Literary Devices
Poetic Devices
Wild Card
100
The point in the story where setting and mood are established and characters are introduced. Often contain important background information and may also include flashbacks or foreshadowing.
What is exposition
100
A comparison between two things using “like” or “as”
What is a simile
100
A person, place, or object that stands for or represents something beyond itself; when concrete image represents an abstract idea; universal
What is a symbol?
100
a unit of poetry, like a paragraph
What is a stanza?
100
The character in a story who/ which faces conflict; main character
What is the protagonist?
200
The point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in a piece of literature.
What is the climax?
200
Conversations between characters in a literary work.
What is dialogue?
200
sensory details in a literary work to create a symbolic or otherwise meaningful effect
What is imagery
200
A comparison in which one thing is something else; an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another.
What is a metaphor?
200
The character or force against which the main character in a story is pitted; villain
What is the antagonist?
300
Events following climax, moving story towards the resolution
What is falling action?
300
A contrast between what is said and what is actually meant; saying the opposite of what one means.
What is verbal irony?
300
Ascribing human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
What is personification
300
The use of words to imitate sounds
What is Onomatopoeia
300
Word choice or the specific vocabulary an author employs according to audience and purposes
What is diction?
400
The central struggle between two opposing forces in a story
What is conflict?
400
a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
What is an analogy?
400
A reference to something from history or literature that is commonly understood.
What is an allusion?
400
Overstatement, exaggeration; a figure of speech in which truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humor
What is hyperbole?
400
Spoken by definable groups of people from a particular geographic region, economic group, or social class. Writers use it to contrast and express differences in educational, class, social, and regional backgrounds of their characters.
What is dialect?
500
The first event in the story that gets the plot moving toward the rising action. The moment conflict begins.
What is the inciting incident?
500
The implementation of literary devices in a text;descriptions or statements that are not to be interpreted on a literal level
What is figurative language?
500
The reflection of a writer’s attitude, manner, mood, and/or moral outlook in his or her work
What is tone?
500
The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
500
A questions to which no answer is expected or the answer is obvious
What is a rhetorical question?