English2

Question 0

Round Character

Answer 0

Highly developed character with many developed traits.

Question 1

Character

Answer 1

Individuals who participate in the action on a literary work.

Question 2

Flat Character

Answer 2

A character that exhibits few traits and not well developed.

Question 3

Static Character

Answer 3

One who remains the same throughout a story.

Question 4

Dynamic Character

Answer 4

Changes throughout the story.

Question 5

Indirect Characterization

Answer 5

An author indirectly tells you about them. Learn about the character through physical description. Seeing the people I’m with, what I look like, things I say, and my actions.

Question 6

Direct Characterization

Answer 6

Author tells exactly what that character is like.

Question 7

Theme

Answer 7

Under lying message about the meaning of life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.
Usually not stated directly but must be inferred.

Question 8

Protagonist

Answer 8

Main character in a work of literature that is involved in the central conflict.

Question 9

Antagonist

Answer 9

The principle character of force and opposition of the protagonist.

Question 10

Allusion

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Diction

Answer 11

Writer or speakers choice of words and the arrangement of the words in sentences.

Question 12

Plot

Answer 12

The sequence of events in a story.

Question 13

Setting

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Foil

Answer 14

Characters that are opposites.

Question 15

Foreshadowing

Answer 15

Using hints and clues to reveal events that will happen later on in the story.

Question 16

Tone

Answer 16

The attitude the writer takes towards a subject.

Question 17

First person point of view

Answer 17

Narrator is one of the character and we as the reader know what they know.

Question 18

Third omniscient

Answer 18

All knowing. Not a character in the story.

Question 19

Third Person Limited

Answer 19

Only know what one character knows. Narrator not in the story.

Question 20

Situational Irony

Answer 20

Reality is the opposite of what it seems.

Question 21

Verbal irony

Answer 21

Speaker says one thing but means another.

Question 22

Dramatic irony

Answer 22

When the audience or reader knows something important that the character does not know.

Question 23

Flashback

Answer 23

When the author interrupts the story to say events that occurred at A different time.

Question 24

Imagery

Answer 24

Language that appeals to the senses.
Sight
Hearing
Smell
Taste
Touch

Question 25

Metaphor

Answer 25

A comparison of two unlike things that does not use like or as.

Question 26

Simile

Answer 26

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

Question 27

Rising Action

Answer 27

When the conflict develops and complications arise building towards the climax.

Question 28

Climax

Answer 28

Point of maximum interest.

Question 29

Falling action

Answer 29

The events that follows the climax and shows the results of the important moments that happened during the climax.

Question 30

Resolution

Answer 30

How the story ends.

Question 31

Suspense

Answer 31

The uncertainly that the reader wants to know what happens next.

Question 32

Hyperbole

Answer 32

A exaggeration

Question 33

Paradox

Answer 33

Seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that states an important truth.

Question 34

Symbol

Answer 34

A place or a object that stands for something beyond itself

Question 35

Repetition

Answer 35

R

Question 36

Assonance

Answer 36

The repetition of vowel sounds.

Question 37

Onomatopoeia

Answer 37

Words that stand for sounds.

Question 38

Internal conflict

Answer 38

One that occurs in a character.

Question 39

External conflict

Answer 39

Character is in conflict with an outside force.
Man vs man
Man vs nature
Etc.