Structure Techniques

Question 1

Setting

Answer 1

Time and place of a story.

Question 2

Plot

Answer 2

Sequence of events that leads to a conclusion.

Question 3

Climax

Answer 3

Turning point of the story.

Question 4

Conflict

Answer 4

Struggle between different forces.

Question 5

Foreshadowing

Answer 5

Clues or hints of events to come.

Question 6

Protagonist

Answer 6

The hero or main character.

Question 7

Antagonist

Answer 7

The opponent or rival of the hero.

Question 8

Narrator

Answer 8

The person telling a story.

Question 9

Dialogue

Answer 9

Conversation between characters.

Question 10

Point of view

Answer 10

The perspective from which a story is told.

Question 11

First person narration

Answer 11

Narrator uses I or me.

Question 12

Third person narration

Answer 12

Narrator describes characters as he, she, or they. Does not know inner thoughts.

Question 13

Third person omniscient

Answer 13

Narrator knows inner thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

Question 14

Mood

Answer 14

Atmosphere of a literary work.

Question 15

Tone

Answer 15

Attitude or feeling conveyed to the reader.

Question 16

Theme

Answer 16

Message or meaning in a literary work.

Question 17

Apostrophe

Answer 17

A writer addresses an object, idea, or person who is dead or absent.

Question 18

Dialect

Answer 18

A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.

Question 19

Flashback

Answer 19

A scene that interrupts the chronological sequence of events to show something that happened earlier.

Question 20

Foil

Answer 20

A character who acts as a contrast to another character.

Question 21

Imagery

Answer 21

The use of language to evoke a picture in the reader’s mind.

Question 22

Verbal Irony

Answer 22

A character says one thing but means another.

Question 23

Situational Irony

Answer 23

The outcome of a situation is opposite to what a character expects.

Question 24

Dramatic Irony

Answer 24

The audience has important knowledge that the characters don’t have.

Question 25

Symbol

Answer 25

A person, place, object, or experience that stands for something more than what it is.

Question 26

Soliloquy

Answer 26

In drama, a long speech made by a character while no other characters are on stage.