Literary techniques

What is the word for the back story of the characters usually told at the beginning of a story?

What word is when main character realizes something about himself that helps resolve the plot?

What is the turning point in the action and/or the highest point of interest?

What is an inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces?

What is a common type of character or something commonly associated with different genres?

A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

The time and place in which a story is set

What is it called when a character either speaks to you or directly acknowledges the audience?

The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning such as "pop" or "buzz"

What is the common thread or lesson that is incorporated throughout a literary work?

The main character in fiction, drama, or narrative poetry

A person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and for something else.

What is a warning or a hint of a future event in a literary work?

What is the term for when everything gets resolved at the end of a story?

The vantage point from which a writer tells a story

An apparent contradiction that is actually true

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect

A scene that interrupts the present action to "flash backward" and tell what happened earlier.

What term is used when you (the audience) know what's going to happen but the characters don't?

A character who sets off another character by strong contrast is . . .

What describes "what goes around comes around" or "the bad/good guy gets what's coming to him"?

What is the word for the atmosphere or your feeling when reading a story?

A long speech in which a character alone onstage expresses his/her private thoughts or feelings

figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things using "like"/"as"

A reference to literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, science, or pop culture

What literary technique is it when an unexpected power or event saves a hopeless situation?

Figure of speech that makes comparison between two seemingly unlike things without "as"/"like"