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This figure of speech compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This genre cannot occur in the real world and usually involves magic and fantastical characters.
What is Fantasy?
This literary element has the time and place where the story happens.
This type of genre is a true account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
This point of view uses the pronouns I, me, my. This narrator has experienced the story firsthand.
What is first person?
This acronym is the first thing you need in an introductory essay.
What is a TAG?
This genre includes made-up stories that could happen in real life.
What is Realistic Fiction?
This literary element is the sequence of actions and events that happens in the story.
This type of genre is a true account of someone's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
This character is the main character in a story who must resolve the conflict. Examples include Peter Parker, Harry Potter, and Katniss Everdeen.
Who is the protagonist?
This Greek root word means self.
What is auto?
This genre includes a story that can be performed on a stage; also has stage directions and a narrator.
What is a Drama?
This literary element includes the people, animals, or creatures involved in the story.
What are the characters?
This type of genre is a true document from the past that showed how people lived or what events occurred.
What is a historical document?
This part of the plot is the turning point of the story, or the highest point of interest in the story. Hint: Top of the mountain!
What is the climax?
This Latin root word means strong.
What is fort?
This type of genre includes a short story with talking animals and has a moral to the story.
What is a Fable?
This literary element involves the struggle between two opposing forces, internal and external.
What is the conflict?
This type of genre is a type of writing where someone shares their opinion about something like a movie, song, restaurant, etc.
What is a review?
This type of conflict comes from outside the protagonist and must be faced, challenged, and conquered to drive the plot. Examples include character vs. character, and character vs. nature.
What is the external conflict?
This Latin root word means believe.
What is cred?
This genre includes a story from ancient cultures to explain a natural phenomenon.
What is a Myth?
This literary element is the way the author tells a story or information.
What is the point of view?
This type of genre is a text that contains facts and information.
This point of view is where the narrator is untrustworthy, and their attitudes and emotions may distort the story.