Unit 1 Assessment

a person, animal, etc. in a story, poem, or play

• protagonist

• theme

• antagonist

• character

the main character in fiction or drama; “the good guy," all major events have some importance to this character

• antagonist

• irony

• protagonist

• character

characters who change over time

• static

• antagonist

• dynamic

• flat

characters who remain the same

• protagonist

• flat

• round

• static

the angle from which the story is told

• point of view

• theme

• antagonist

• short story

the story is told by one of the characters (using pronouns: I, me, we, etc.)

• first person point of view (POV)

• third person limited omniscient POV

• third person omniscient POV

• third person objective POV

the story is told by someone outside the story (using pronouns: he, she, they, etc.)

• third person point of view

• characterization

• setting

• theme

allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feelings of all the characters

• first person point of view (POV)

• third person omniscient POV

• third person limited omniscient POV

• third person objective POV

allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feelings of one central character

• first person point of view (POV)

• third person omniscient POV

• third person limited POV

• third person objective POV

allows the narrator to record the action from his or her own point of view, being unaware of any of the characters’ thoughts or feelings, the reader has to interpret events on his own.

• first person point of view (POV)

• third person omniscient POV

• third person limited omniscient POV

• third person objective POV