10th Grade Lit Final Practice

Point of View

• A perspective where the narrator is telling the story and is also a character in the story

• A perspective where the narrator knows everything about only one character

• The highest point in the story

• The perspective from which the story is told

Suspense

• A character that is larger than life

• The feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about the outcome of certain actions

• A thought or idea the author presents to the reader that may be deep or moralistic

• Conflicts are beginning to be resolved; the story is wrapping up its loose ends

Conflict

• The struggle between opposing forces

• The author’s attitude toward the text

• The narrator is telling the story, but is not included in the story

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Short Story

• Conflicts are beginning to be resolved; the story is wrapping up its loose ends

• The prevailing atmosphere or feeling in the story

• A brief piece of prose fiction that can be read in a single setting

• The conclusion of a story where conflicts are typically defused

Tone

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• The way the author presents the character to the audience

• The author’s attitude toward the text

• Conflicts are introduced to the story

Mood

• The prevailing atmosphere or feeling in the story

• A thought or idea the author presents to the reader that may be deep or moralistic

• Language used not for its literal meaning, but for its effect

• Conflicts are introduced to the story

Direct characterization

• A brief piece of prose fiction that can be read in a single setting

• The narrator is telling the story, but is not included in the story

• The conclusion of a story where conflicts are typically defused

• The author reveals a character’s attributes by stating them directly

Epic hero

• The perspective from which the story is told

• A character that is larger than life

• The prevailing atmosphere or feeling in the story

• The struggle between opposing forces

Round character

• A perspective where the narrator is telling the story and is also a

  character in the story

• A central character that experiences conflict and changes and grows through the story

• The author’s attitude toward the text

• The way the author presents the character to the audience

Flat character

• Language used not for its literal meaning, but for its effect

• Conflicts are introduced to the story

• A character that does not experience conflicts and does not grow or change through the story

• The highest point in the story