World Myths and Folktales Unit Vocab #2

Question 1

Point of view

Answer 1

The vantage point from which a writer tells a story

Question 2

Theme

Answer 2

Central idea of the myth

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

A struggle or clash between opposing characters

Question 4

Mood

Answer 4

The overall emotion created by a work of literature

Question 5

Setting

Answer 5

The time of year, the weather, or the cottage

Question 6

Crisis

Answer 6

The point at which the main character makes a decision or commits an action that will affect the entire outcome of the story

Question 7

Fairy tale

Answer 7

Is a particular kind of folktale that features supernatural elements such as spirits, talking animals, and magic

Question 8

Moral lesson

Answer 8

A message about how people ought to behave

Question 9

Suspense

Answer 9

The feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story

Question 10

Romanticism

Answer 10

A literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that developed during yhr late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a reaction against neoclassicism; doing things the old fashioned way

Question 11

Internal conflict

Answer 11

The struggle between opposing desires or needs within a character’s own mind

Question 12

External conflict

Answer 12

A character struggles against some outside force: another character, society, or a force of nature

Question 13

First person POV

Answer 13

The narrator is a character in the story an we are limited to knowing only what that

Question 14

Third person POV

Answer 14

Can gain great insight into one character, but we can’t know the inner workings of the other characters’ minds except through inference

Question 15

Omniscient POV

Answer 15

Get a “god’s eye” view of every character and every event, even the past and the future. “All knowing POV”