Essential Literary Devices

The time and location in which a story takes place:

• Plot

• Setting

• Conflict

• Characterization

There are ___________ types of conflict.

• 1, external

• 2, internal and external

• 3, internal, external, nocturnal

• 4, internal, external, nocturnal, eternal

The central, main character of a story is called the ____________.

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Antagonizer

• Instigator

The opposition of forces essential to the plot is called__________.

• Setting

• Conflict

• Character

• Climax

What is a person or animal which takes part in the action of a story called?

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Narrator

What is the sequence of events involving characters and a central conflict called?

• Setting

• Character

• Plot

• Conflict

The character or force that opposes the main character is called the __________.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Dynamic Character

• Static Character

Hints that are given that warn you that something may happen later in the story is called __________

• Foreshadowing

• Simile

• Flashback

• External

What term means category or kind of story?

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

• Genre

• Literature

When a character recalls an important event from the past is called

• Foreshadowing

• Exposition

• Flashback

• Resolution