Literary Elements

Question 1

What is external conflict?

Answer 1

A character struggles against an outside force

Question 2

What is a character?

Answer 2

A person in a story, poem, or play

Question 3

What is an allusion?

Answer 3

A reference to a statement, person, a place, or events

Question 4

What is conflict?

Answer 4

A struggle between the two opposing forces

Question 5

What does Austere mean?

Answer 5

Severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance

Question 6

What is characterization?

Answer 6

How the author develops the characters, especially the main character(s)

Question 7

What does Civic mean?

Answer 7

Relating to the duties or activities of people in relation to their town, city, or local area

Question 8

What is characterization done through?

Answer 8

• What the character does or says
• What others say about or to the character
• Author’s word choice in descriptive passages

Question 9

What is a static character?

Answer 9

Does not change

Question 10

What is an unreliable narrator?

Answer 10

An untrustworthy narrator who may not give accuurate or truthful information. This narrator is usually a first person narrator

Question 11

What is symbolism?

Answer 11

An object, person, or event(s) that function as itself but also stands for something more than itself

Question 12

What is an omniscient point of view?

Answer 12

All knowing narrator. Knows all the character thoughts, backstories, and feelings

Question 13

What is a point of view?

Answer 13

The point from which the story is told

Question 14

What is a third person point of view?

Answer 14

Narrator is not a character in the story and describes a character’s thoughts or actions by using “she”, “he”, or “they”

Question 15

What is imagery?

Answer 15

Language that appeals to the senses

Question 16

What is direct characterization?

Answer 16

Author directly states what the character’s personality is like (e.g. cruel, kind)

Question 17

What are the types of conflict?

Answer 17

Internal or external conflict

Question 18

What is situational irony?

Answer 18

The opposite of what is expected

Question 19

What does Abstract mean?

Answer 19

Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence

Question 20

What does Confide mean?

Answer 20

Trust (someone) enough to tell them of a secret or private matter

Question 21

What is a dynamic character?

Answer 21

Changes as a result of the story’s events

Question 22

What does Adapt mean?

Answer 22

To become adjusted to new conditions

Question 23

What is an antagonist?

Answer 23

Major character that opposes the protagonist

Question 24

What is suspense?

Answer 24

Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in the story

Question 25

What does Bias mean?

Answer 25

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair

Question 26

What is a flashback?

Answer 26

The present scene in the story is interrupted to flash backward and tell what happened in an earlier time

Question 27

What is a first person point of view?

Answer 27

One of the characters is telling the story, using the pronoun "I"

Question 28

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 28

When the reader knows something important that the characters in the story do not

Question 29

What does Competent mean?

Answer 29

Having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully

Question 30

What is a protagonist?

Answer 30

Main character of the story

Question 31

What is a flat character?

Answer 31

- Stereotyped - Not many traits

Question 32

What is the climax of a story?

Answer 32

The turning point in the story/ the high point of interest and suspense

Question 33

What is an Altercation?

Answer 33

A noisy argument or disagreement, especially in public

Question 34

What are the types of characterization?

Answer 34

Direct and indirect characterization

Question 35

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 35

Clues the writer puts in the story to give the reader a hint of what is to come

Question 36

What is internal conflict?

Answer 36

Conflict that takes places in a character's own mind (e.g. man vs. themself)

Question 37

What does Advocate mean?

Answer 37

A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy

Question 38

What is verbal irony?

Answer 38

Saying one thing but meaning something completely different

Question 39

What is a round character?

Answer 39

Fully developed; has many different personality traits

Question 40

What is theme?

Answer 40

The central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work

Question 41

What does Anticipate mean?

Answer 41

Regard as probable; expect or predict

Question 42

What is indirect characterization?

Answer 42

Showing a character's personality through their actions, thoughts, feelings, or other characteristics or other character's observations or reactions

Question 43

What part of speech is Abstract?

Answer 43

Adjective

Question 44

What part of speech is Adapt?

Answer 44

Verb

Question 45

What part of speech is Advocate?

Answer 45

Noun or Verb depending on the context

Question 46

What part of speech is Altercation?

Answer 46

Noun

Question 47

What part of speech is Anticipate?

Answer 47

Verb

Question 48

What part of speech is Austere?

Answer 48

Adjective

Question 49

What part of speech is Bias?

Answer 49

Noun

Question 50

What part of speech is Civic?

Answer 50

Adjective

Question 51

What part of speech is Competent?

Answer 51

Adjective