Elements of Plot

Question 1

Conflict

Answer 1

A struggle between opposing characters or forces

Question 2

Resolution

Answer 2

How conflict is solved

Question 3

Complications

Answer 3

Rising and falling action

Question 4

Climax

Answer 4

The point in a story that creates the greatest suspense or interest

Question 5

Subplot

Answer 5

A minor plot that relates in some way to the main story

Question 6

Parallel episodes

Answer 6

Related elements of the plot

Question 7

Exposition

Answer 7

The kind of writing that explains or gives info

Question 8

Characterization

Answer 8

The way a writer reveals personality of a character

Question 9

Direct characterization

Answer 9

When a writer simply tells the reader what a character is like

Question 10

Indirect characterization

Answer 10

When a writer tells what the character is like in a way that the reader has to infer based on the words of a character, description of the characters looks, comments made about the character, and characters behavior

Question 11

Imagery

Answer 11

Language that appeals to the senses

Question 12

Simile

Answer 12

A comparison between two unlike things using the words such as like or as

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one is said to be another thing

Question 14

Personification

Answer 14

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings ,thoughts ,or attitude

Question 15

Characters voice

Answer 15

Character speech and thought patterns of a first person narrative personality

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together

Question 17

Hyperbole

Answer 17

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Question 18

Inference

Answer 18

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

Question 19

Symbolism

Answer 19

The use of symbols in writing

Question 20

Extended metaphor

Answer 20

A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem

Question 21

Parable

Answer 21

A short story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson

Question 22

Allegory

Answer 22

An equation of a person or object with a meaning outside the story

Question 23

Connotation and denotation

Answer 23

A meaning, association, or emotion by a word, in addition to the dictionary definition,or denotation

Question 24

Verbal irony

Answer 24

When words really imply the opposite of what they seem to mean

Question 25

Irony of situation

Answer 25

When something happens that seems the opposite of what someone expects

Question 26

Satire

Answer 26

Writing that ridicules something often in order to bring about change

Question 27

Verisimilitude

Answer 27

An impression of truth or reality in literary works

Question 28

Allusion

Answer 28

A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science

Question 29

Iambic pentameter

Answer 29

When each line of text has ten syllables and each syllables alternates between stressed and unstressed

Question 30

Tone

Answer 30

The attitude the writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience; what the writer does to make the reader feel a certain way

Question 31

Mood

Answer 31

How the reader or audience feels; the overall feeling of a work of literature, aka atmosphere