plot and setting

Question 1

plot

Answer 1

events that form a narrative

Question 2

narrative

Answer 2

a short story

Question 3

conflicts

Answer 3

a serious disagreement or argument

Question 4

exposition

Answer 4

a comprehensive description

Question 5

rising action

Answer 5

main charter starts to experience complications

Question 6

climax

Answer 6

most intense part of the story

Question 7

suspense

Answer 7

excited or anxious uncertain of what will happen

Question 8

comedy

Answer 8

story intended to make audience laugh

Question 9

tragedy

Answer 9

a event causing great suffering

Question 10

falling action

Answer 10

the action shifts toward resolution instead of escalation

Question 11

denouement

Answer 11

plot are drawn together and matters are explained

Question 12

resolution

Answer 12

a decision to do or not do something

Question 13

in medias res

Answer 13

in the middle of narrative

Question 14

flashbacks

Answer 14

happened prior to the story’s beginning

Question 15

foreshadowing

Answer 15

to hint at events to come

Question 16

protagonist

Answer 16

the main character

Question 17

antagonist

Answer 17

the bad guy

Question 18

coming of age story/building romans

Answer 18

when the character matures

Question 19

epiphany

Answer 19

sudden moment of realization

Question 20

round characters

Answer 20

a character in a fictional work with depth or a complex personality.

Question 21

flat characters

Answer 21

called stock characters, never deviate from their rather simple traits

Question 22

foil

Answer 22

a character who contrasts with another character

Question 23

stock characters

Answer 23

a character in a drama or fiction that represents a type and that is recognizable as belonging to a certain genre.

Question 24

direct characterization

Answer 24

consists of the author telling the audience what a character is like.

Question 25

indirect characterization

Answer 25

a type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly.

Question 26

setting

Answer 26

the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs.

Question 27

second person point of view

Answer 27

uses the pronoun “you” to address the reader.

Question 28

first person point of view

Answer 28

the narrator is a character in the story telling it from their perspective.

Question 29

third person point of view

Answer 29

uses pronouns such as she hi it

Question 30

omniscient

Answer 30

knowing of everything

Question 31

symbols

Answer 31

are objects places events or characters that have meaning and significance beyond physical form

Question 32

allegory

Answer 32

an entire literary work in which abstract ideas appear in concrete ways

Question 33

archetypes

Answer 33

a primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation.