Terms

Question 1

Conflict:

Answer 1

A struggle between opposing forces

Question 2

POV:

Answer 2

The vantage point from which the story will be told from

Question 3

Flashback:

Answer 3

A scene set in an earlier time before the main story

Question 4

Foreshadowing:

Answer 4

Hints or clues as to what will happen later on in the story

Question 5

Unreliable Narrator:

Answer 5

A narrator who’s credibility is compromised

Question 6

Irony:

Answer 6

A contrast between what appears to be true and what is really true between expectation and reality

Question 7

Plot:

Answer 7

A series of events that make up a literary work

Question 8

Theme:

Answer 8

The central idea/message of a literary work

Question 9

Setting:

Answer 9

The time and place of a literary work

Question 10

Symbol:

Answer 10

An object, person, place, or action that has a hidden meaning behind it

Question 11

Internal Conflict:

Answer 11

A conflict that takes place in the mind

Question 12

External Conflict:

Answer 12

A conflict that takes place in the world

Question 13

Narrator:

Answer 13

A person who delivers a commentary accompanying a movie, broadcast, piece of music, etc

Question 14

Direct Characterization:

Answer 14

When the author directly states what a character is like

Question 15

Indirect Characterization:

Answer 15

When an author does not directly state what a character is like but reveals it through actions, thoughts, feelings, or interactions

Question 16

Character:

Answer 16

Person, animal, or things in a literary work

Question 17

Metaphor:

Answer 17

A direct comparison of two unlike things where one becomes the other thing

Question 18

Onomatopoeia:

Answer 18

Words that imitate sounds

Question 19

Personification:

Answer 19

A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is given humanoid characteristics

Question 20

Simile:

Answer 20

A comparison of two unlike things g using like or as

Question 21

Tone:

Answer 21

The writer’s attitude towards a subject, character, or audience

Question 22

Hyperbole:

Answer 22

A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration.

Question 23

Protagonist:

Answer 23

The central character, around which the plot is centered

Question 24

Antagonist:

Answer 24

The obstacle in the way of the protagonist