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What is the struggle between opposing forces that drives the plot of a story?
Conflict
In "A Handful of Dates," the narrator's grandfather's beard is described as being "as white as cotton wool." This is an example of a...
Simile
The phrase "a storm of grief" from "The Story of an Hour" is a...
Metaphor
What literary device gives human qualities or actions to inanimate objects?
Personification
The shabby, splintered black box in "The Lottery" represents an outdated and harmful tradition. The box is a... 🔺 Metaphor ♦️ Conflict 🟡 Character 🔷 Symbol
Symbol
The most intense, exciting, or important turning point of a story is called the...
Climax
A character who is complex, develops throughout the story, and shows multiple personality traits is a...
round
a character who only shows one personality trait (blindly following tradition), is a classic example of a...
flat
When the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not, it's called...
Dramatic Irony
After spilling coffee on his new thobe, a man says, "Well, this is just a perfect start to my day!" This is an example of...
verbal irony
Language that appeals to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) is called...
imagry
The part of the story where the central conflict is solved and the story comes to a close is the..
resolution
