Question | Answer |
Exposition | Introduces characters, setting, and conflict |
Rising Action | Builds Suspense |
Climax | The turning point in a story |
Falling Action | Logical results of the climax |
Resolution | Final outcomes of the story |
Protagonist | The main character |
Antagonist | The conflict with the main character |
Conflict | Struggling between two or more opposing forces |
Internal conflict | Between a character and an outside element |
External conflict | Within the mind of the character |
Setting | Time place ideas customs values and beliefs |
POV | Relationship of the narrator to the story |
Chronological order | How the events in the story are ordered |
Flashbacks | Events from the before the beginning of the story |
Foreshadowing | Leaves clues and hints to help the reader predict |
Indirect characterization | When author directly states something adopt persons physical appearance |
Direct characterization | Reader infer something about a person physical appearance |
Situational irony | When a character or the reader expects one thing to happen but something else happens instead” |
Verbal Irony | “when what is said is the opposite of what is meant” |
Dramatic Irony | “when what a character knows contrasts with what the audience knows” |
Imagery | vivid description created by sensory Lang |
Sensory Language | specific words and phrases that appeal to the 5 physical senses |
Mood | the atmosphere of a story how the story makes the reader feel |
Tone | the authors attitude toward a subject how the author sound |
Theme | The underlying message the author wants us to understand |
Universal Theme | true in all time periods and culture |
Stated Theme | the author says it on the text |
Universal symbolism | symbols that are known throughout the world and mean the same thing to everyone |
Personal symbolism | Symbols known by a single culture and do not have meaning beyond that culture |
Implied Theme | must be inferred by the reader |