Narrative Terms
Examples of this could include character vs. society, character vs. self, and character vs. nature.
What is conflict?
What is direct characterization?
The technical term for describing an author or narrator's choice of words.
What is diction?
A group of words which can stand as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
The central unifying idea of a story.
What is theme?
When hints are dropped early in the story which suggest later events.
What is foreshadowing?
A character that does not display contradictory characteristics and does not change over the course of a story.
What is a flat character?
The attitude of a narrator or speaker to their subject.
What is tone?
An incomplete sentence missing a subject, a verb, or a complete thought.
What is a fragment?
The idea that a thing represents other things.
What is symbolism?
The final element of the five-act structure, which brings closure to the story.
What is resolution?
When a character is revealed, not through direct description, but through what they say, think, do, the effect they have on others, etc.
What is indirect characterization?
The overall feeling or emotional atmosphere which a story evokes.
What is mood?
The grammatical error which occurs when a comma is used when a semicolon would be more appropriate.
What is a comma splice?
A narrator whose account of events cannot be fully trusted.
What is an unreliable narrator?
What is exposition?
A complex, multidimensional character--one who may experience internal conflict or transformation in a story.
What is a round character?
The suggestions or associations that a word conveys, beyond its literal meaning.
What is connotation?
A way two independent clauses can be linked in a single sentence. (three possible answers here)
What is a semicolon? OR What is a comma plus conjunction? OR What is a conjunction (if the clauses are short)?
A literary device that places a person, object, place, or idea alongside something else that provides a contrast
What is juxtaposition?
The three kinds of irony.
What are situational, dramatic, and verbal irony?
A character which contrasts and highlights the traits of another character in a story.
What is a foil?
A recurring element such as an image, sound, and action that appears repeatedly throughout a story
What is a motif?
A sentence that contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
A work of fiction written in the form of letters or other documents.
What is an epistolary novel?