Vocabulary

Question 0

Round Character

Answer 0

Highly developed character with many traits.

Question 1

Character

Answer 1

Individuals who participate in the action of literary work.

Question 2

Flat Charachter

Answer 2

Character who exhibits few traits, is not well developed, and we know very little about them.

Question 3

Static Character

Answer 3

One who remains the same throughout the story.

Question 4

Dynamic Character

Answer 4

One who changes throughout the story.

Question 5

Direct Characterization

Answer 5

When the writer tells you exactly what that character is like.

Question 6

Indirect Characterization

Answer 6

Learn about characters indirectly.

Question 7

Internal Confict

Answer 7

One that occurs within a character.

Question 8

External Conflict

Answer 8

Character in conflict with an outside force.

Question 9

Plot

Answer 9

The sequence of events in a story.

Question 10

Setting

Answer 10

Time and place of the action in a work of literature.

Question 11

Theme

Answer 11

Underlying message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. Typically this is not stated directly, but must inferred.

Question 12

Allusion

Answer 12

Indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.

Question 13

Diction

Answer 13

Writer or speakers choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences.

Question 14

Foreshadowing

Answer 14

Writers use of hints or clues to suggest the events that will occur later in the story.

Question 15

Protagonist

Answer 15

Main character in a work of literature who’s involved in the central conflict.

Question 16

Antagonist

Answer 16

Principal character of force in opposition to the protagonist.

Question 17

Tone

Answer 17

Attitude a writer takes towards a subject.

Question 18

Foil

Answer 18

Character who provides a striking contrast to another character.

Question 19

First Person Point of Veiw

Answer 19

The narrator is a character in the story and we as a reader know only what they know.

Question 20

Third Person Omniscient

Answer 20

Narrator is not a character in the story and is all-knowing.

Question 21

Third Person Limited

Answer 21

Narrator is not a person in the story and knows only what one character knows.

Question 22

Verbal Irony

Answer 22

Speaker says one thing but means another.

Question 23

Situational Irony

Answer 23

What actually happens is the opposite of what is expected.

Question 24

Dramatic Irony

Answer 24

Reader or viewer knows something important that the character does not know.

Question 25

Climax

Answer 25

The point of maximum interest or tension.

Question 26

Resolution

Answer 26

How the story ends.

Question 27

Symbol

Answer 27

A person, a place, an object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself.

Question 28

Flashback

Answer 28

An account of a conversation, an episode, or an event that happened before the beginning of a story.

Question 29

Imagery

Answer 29

Consists or descriptive and phrases that recreate sensory experiences for the reader.

Sight
Hearing
Smell
Taste
Tough

Question 30

Simile

Answer 30

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the words likes or as.

Question 31

Metaphor

Answer 31

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common.

Question 32

Paradox

Answer 32

A seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may suggest an important truth.

Question 33

Suspense

Answer 33

The excitement or tension that readers feel as they wait to find out how a story ends or a conflict is resolved.

Question 34

Hyperbole

Answer 34

A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated.

Question 35

Rising Action

Answer 35

Conflict develops and the story events build to a climax and the complications of the story arise.

Question 36

Falling Action

Answer 36

Follows the climax and shows the results of the important decision or actions that happened during the climax.

Question 37

Alliteration

Answer 37

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

Question 38

Assonance

Answer 38

The repartition of vowel sounds within non rhyming words.

Question 39

Onomatopoeia

Answer 39

The use of words whose sounds echo their meaning.

Buzz
Pop
Bam
Murmur

Question 40

Mood

Answer 40

The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader.