Mid Term 1

Question 1

What is setting?

Answer 1

The general location and time period in which a story takes place

Question 2

What is occasion?

Answer 2

the specific time and location in which a story takes place

Question 3

What is chronological?

Answer 3

Arranged in the order of time

Question 4

What is flashback?

Answer 4

A literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative

Question 5

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 5

The use of hints by the author to suggest what will happen later in the story

Question 6

What is character?

Answer 6

any individual animal object or force

Question 7

What is protagonist?

Answer 7

the main character

Question 8

What is antagonist?

Answer 8

the character/force opposing protagonist

Question 9

What is major character?

Answer 9

a character that appears throughout the story; important

Question 10

What is minor character?

Answer 10

a character that appears briefly; shows/teaches something

Question 11

Dynamic character?

Answer 11

character that undergoes a significant change

Question 12

Static character?

Answer 12

character that does not significantly change

Question 13

Characterization?

Answer 13

writing technique to reveal personality of a character

Question 14

Direct characterization?

Answer 14

narrator directly tells the reader what a character is like

Question 15

Indirect characterization?

Answer 15

author indirectly shows the reader what a character is like

Question 16

Speech?

Answer 16

author reveals character’s personality through what or how they say it

Question 17

Thoughts?

Answer 17

author reveals character’s personality by describing thoughts

Question 18

Effects on others?

Answer 18

author reveals character’s personality through how others react to them

Question 19

Actions?

Answer 19

author reveals character’s personality through what and how they do things

Question 20

define author?

Answer 20

creator and writer of story

Question 21

define narrator?

Answer 21

The “voice” of the story that speaks or tells the story

Question 22

What is point of view?

Answer 22

the perspective in which the story is told

Question 23

first person view?

Answer 23

told using “i” or “we”, narrator character in story

Question 24

second person view?

Answer 24

told using “you”. reader is character in story

Question 25

third person view?

Answer 25

story told using he/she/it or they. Narrator is an observer

Question 26

omniscient narrator?

Answer 26

narrator knows all

Question 27

limited omniscient narrator?

Answer 27

narrator knows all of one character

Question 28

objective narrator?

Answer 28

narrator describes what character look like and what they do but can not look into their minds