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Characterization
Plot
Point of View
Literary Terms
100
A term for the main character of a story
What is "protagonist"?
100
The culmination or highest point in the conflict of a story
What is the climax?
100
This is when the story is written from the perspective of one character
What is first person point of view?
100
The central idea or message of a story
What is the theme?
200
This is the character who opposes (or who is against) the protagonist.
What is "antagonist"?
200
The last part of a story
What is the resolution or conclusion?
200
This is when a story is written from the outside looking in, but still follows only one character (rather than seeing everything)
What is third person limited point of view?
200
When events in the story hint or suggest what's going to happen later
What is foreshadowing?
300
The process of developing a character through their speech, actions, and interactions with others rather than describing the character directly.
What is indirect characterization?
300
A term for the very beginning of a story
What is the exposition or introduction?
300
The character who tells the story in a work that uses the first person
What is the narrator?
300
Giving a non-living object human qualities or describing it like one would a human (Example: The flowers are dancing beside the lake)
What is personification?
400
A term for a character that only has one or two personality trait, that doesn't develop over the story, and that isn't very well developed.
What is a flat character?
400
A term for the story's central problem
What is conflict?
400
When the story is written from the outside looking in, but doesn't follow just one person (but can see everything)
What is third person omniscient point of view?
400
When a state of affairs or event seems deliberately contrary to what one expects
What is irony?
500
A character that changes and develops over the course of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
500
The part of the story after the introduction that introduces and develops the conflict
What is rising action?
500
When a story is written as if it's addressing a person (using words like "you" and "your")
What is second person point of view?
500
When several words in a sentence or phrase all start with the same consonant sound
What is alliteration?