Terms To Know

Question 0

Characterization

Answer 0

Direct: author directly states what the character’s personality is like
Indirect: showing a character’s personality through his/her actions, thoughts, feelings, words, appearance or other character’s observations or reactions

Question 1

Types of characters

Answer 1

Round: fully developed, has many different character traits
Flat: stereotyped, one dimensional, few traits
Static: does not change
Dynamic: changes as a result of the story’s events

Question 2

Conflict

Answer 2

A struggle between two opposing forces

Question 3

Internal Conflict

Answer 3

Takes place in a character’s own mind

•Man vs. Him(Her)self

Question 4

External Conflict

Answer 4

A character struggles against an outside force
• Man vs. Man
• Man vs. Nature
• Man vs. Technology, Press
• Man vs. Society
• Man vs. Supernatural

Question 5

Point of Views

Answer 5

Vantage point from which the writer tells the story
• First person - one if the characters is actually telling the story using the pronoun “I”
• Third person - centers on one character’s thoughts and actions
• Omniscient - All knowing character

Question 6

Foreshadowing

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Symbol

Answer 7

An object, person, or event that functions as itself, but also stands for something more than itself

Question 8

Figurative Language

Answer 8

Involves some imaginative comparison between two unlike things.
• Simile - comparing two things using like or as
• Metaphor - comparing two unlike things
• Personification - giving human qualities to non-human things