Module 2

Question 1

is a person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or other literary work.

Answer 1

Character

Question 2

the time and place in which it happens. Authors often use descriptions
of landscape, scenery, buildings, seasons or weather to provide a strong sense of setting.

Answer 2

Setting

Question 3

a series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.

Answer 3

Plot

Question 4

struggle between two people or things in a short story. The main character is usually
on one side of the central conflict.

Answer 4

Conflict

Question 5

central idea or belief in a short story.

Answer 5

Theme

Question 6

• contains the exposition and establishes the story’s conflict.
  – contains the rising action and the story’s climax.
  – contains the falling action and resolution.

Answer 6

Beginning
Middle
Conclusion

Question 7

a plot introduces the story’s setting, mood, the main character, supporting
characters, and time. Character development happens during this part of the story.

Answer 7

Exposition

Question 8

the problem, crisis, challenge, dilemma, or obstacle presented to the main
character.

Answer 8

Conflict

Question 9

sequence of solutions to the conflict that the main character tries; it is all
the events leading to the turning point of the story. It can be identified by increasing tension, emotion,
difficulty, or challenge.

Answer 9

Rising Action

Question 10

the peak of excitement, the moment when the story changes (a
turning point), the main character, and the problem is resolved.

Answer 10

Climax

Question 11

the plot points wrapping up, the consequences of the climax, and
reflection on the changes in the main character. It can be identified by decreasing tension, an
approaching resolution, and relaxation of emotion.

Answer 11

Falling Action

Question 12

Theresolutionis the plot’s end, whether that resolution is a happy ending or sad ending, fun or
frightening, satisfying or unsatisfying. The resolution might tie up loose ends or leave important
elements of the story unresolved.

Answer 12

Resolution of the Story

Question 13

It is any poem with one speaker (not necessarily the poet) who expresses
strong thoughts and feelings.

Answer 13

Lyric Poetry

Question 14

It is a poem that tells a story; its structure resembles the plot line of a
story (i.e. the introduction of conflict and characters, rising action, climax and the
denouement).

Answer 14

Narrative Poem

Question 15

It is a poem that describes the world that surrounds the speaker. It
uses elaborate imagery and adjectives. While emotional, it is more "outward-focused"
than lyric poetry, which is more personal and introspective.

Answer 15

Descriptive Poem

Question 16

• weak syllable followed by strong syllable.
• strong syllable followed by a weak syllable.
• two weak syllables followed by a strong syllable.
• a strong syllable followed by two weak syllables.
• two strong syllables (not common as lines, but appears as a foot).

Answer 16

Iambic
Trochaic
Anapestic
Dactylic
Spondaic

Question 17

Many metered poems in English avoid perfectly regular rhythm because it is
monotonous.

Answer 17

Irregularity

Question 18

Any poetry that does have a set metrical pattern (usually iambic pentameter), but
does not have rhyme

Answer 18

Blank Verse

Question 19

Most modern poetry no longer follows strict rules of meter or rhyme, especially
throughout an entire poem.

Answer 19

Free Verse

Question 20

the repetition of initial sounds on the same line or stanza

Answer 20

Alliteration

Question 21

the repetition of vowel sounds

Answer 21

Assonance

Question 22

the repetition of consonant sounds

Answer 22

Consonance

Question 23

words that sound like that which they describe

Answer 23

Onomatopoeia

Question 24

the repetition of entire lines or phrases to emphasize key thematic ideas.

Answer 24

Repetition

Question 25

a form of repetition where the order of verbs and nouns is repeated; it may
involve exact words, but it more importantly repeats sentence structure

Answer 25

Parallel Structure

Question 26

essential to a good plot; nothing irrelevant; good arrangement.

Answer 26

Artistic Unity

Question 27

a good plot should not have any unjustified or unexpected turns or twists; no
false leads; no deliberate and misleading information.

Answer 27

Plot Manipulation

Question 28

author tells us straight out, by exposition or analysis, or through another
character.

Answer 28

Direct Presentation

Question 29

author shows us the character in action; the reader infers what a
character is like from what she/he thinks, or says, or does. These are also called dramatized
characters and they are generally consistent (in behaviour), motivated (convincing), and plausible
(lifelike).

Answer 29

Indirect Presentation

Question 30

a story told by the author, using the third person; her/his knowledge, control, and
prerogatives are unlimited; authorial subjectivity.

Answer 30

Omniscient

Question 31

a story in which the author associates with a major or minor character; this
character serves as the author’s spokesperson or mouthpiece.

Answer 31

Limited Omniscient

Question 32

the author identifies with or disappears in a major or minor character;

Answer 32

First Person

Question 33

the opposite of the omniscient; displays authorial objectivity; compared a
roving sound camera. Very little of the past or the future is given; the story is set in the present.

Answer 33

Objective or Dramatic

Question 34

it means more than what it is. It has layers of meanings.

Answer 34

Symbol

Question 35

the opposite is said from what is intended.

Answer 35

Verbal Irony

Question 36

the contrast between what a character says and what the reader knows to
true.

Answer 36

Dramatic Irony

Question 37

discrepancy between appearance and reality, or between expectation and
fulfillment, or between what is and what would seem appropriate.

Answer 37

Irony of Situation