Vocab

Question 0

What is the atmosphere or feeling of a literary work. The setting can contribute to establishing the mood of a story?

Answer 0

Mood

Question 1

What is the time and place in which a story takes place?

Answer 1

Setting

Question 2

What means individuals whose thoughts and actions make up a story. The actions of the characters make up the events of the story?

Answer 2

Characters

Question 3

What means central focal figure in a work of fictions?

Answer 3

Protagonist

Question 4

What is a character or force that works against the protagonist, creating obstacles. A story can have more than one antagonist?

Answer 4

Antagonist

Question 5

What are characters that are fully developed which both positive qualities and flaws. Most protagonists are round characters?

Answer 5

Round characters

Question 6

What are characters that undergo change over the course of a story as a result of their experience. Most protagonists are dynamic?

Answer 6

Dynamic characters

Question 7

Who are characters that do not undergo any change from the story’s inception to its conclusions?

Answer 7

Static characters

Question 8

Who are characters that are stereotypical and one-dimensionalw? They are simple with limited personality traits?

Answer 8

Flat characters

Question 9

What are methods used by an author to develop a character. Characterization can be direct in that the author clearly states what the characters look like, say and do. With indirect characterization, the author reveals a character by showing something about him or her?

Answer 9

Characterization

Question 10

What is an arrangement, or sequence, of events within a story?

Answer 10

Plot

Question 11

What is an obstacle, struggle, or controversy that the protagonist must resolve to overcome?

Answer 11

Conflict

Question 12

What is a conflict in which the protagonist has a problem with another character?

Answer 12

Character vs. character

Question 13

What is a conflict in which the protagonist must struggle against a harsh environment or natural disaster?

Answer 13

Character vs. nature

Question 14

What is a conflict in which the protagonist faces a problem with a part or the whole of society?

Answer 14

Character vs. society

Question 15

What is a conflict in which the protagonist is at odds with an internal problem, such as fear, shyness or guilt?

Answer 15

Character vs. self

Question 16

What is a conflict in which the protagonist struggles with a force that seems beyond the characters control?

Answer 16

Character vs. fate

Question 17

What is a second story within the main plot of a story?

Answer 17

Subplot

Question 18

What word means in fiction, the plot normally begins with exposition?

Answer 18

Exposition

Question 19

What means the use of clues early in a story to give hints about events that will happen later?

Answer 19

Foreshadowing

Question 20

What is a series of events and conflict involving the story’s characters that leads to the climax?

Answer 20

Rising action

Question 21

What means the turning point of a story. It is when the conflict is most intense either internally or in action?

Answer 21

Climax

Question 22

What is also referred to as denouement, it is the action that follows the climax and leads to the resolution?

Answer 22

Falling action

Question 23

What is the conclusion of the story, it is when the conflict is finally resolved?

Answer 23

Resolution

Question 24

What means an unexpected twist in the resolution of a story. The story concludes in a way opposite from what the reader may expect together?

Answer 24

Situational irony

Question 25

What is the IDE or ideas that weave the characters, setting, and events together?

Answer 25

Theme