Literary Elements #1
The time and place in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
a struggle between 2 forces
What is conflict?
A version of a language spoken in a particular place.
What is dialect?
the way the narrator feels about the events, setting, characters in the story
What is tone?
"Time is money."
Double points! what is this element?
What is metaphor?
A figure of speech in which something not human is described as if it were human.
What is personification
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about it as if it were another.
What is metaphor?
The time and place in which a story happens
What is a setting
Man vs. self is one example
What is conflict?
"It's raining cats and dogs!"
Double points! what is this element?
Idiom
A person, animal, or inanimate object that drives the story forward.
What is character.
a figure of speech using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
stands for or represents itself and something else.
What is symbol?
the solution or outcome of a problem
What is a resolution?
"The moon smiled down on the Earth"
Double points! what is this element?
What is personification?
the difference between appearance and reality
What is irony?
the author's purpose or goal
What is aim?
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
What is a hyperbole?
The turning point of the story
climax
Once upon a time in the medieval kingdom of Florin, there was a giant castle over looking the cerulean ocean.
Double points! what is this element?
What is setting?
the act of presenting materials that hint at events to occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A vivid mental picture created in the reader's mind through language.
What is imagery?
any recurring element, idea, or concept that has symbolic value.
a) motif
b) symbol
c)themed
d) conflict
What is motif?
the perspective from which the story is told
What is point of view?
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Double points! what is this element?
What is simile?