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ELEMENTS of Fiction
Fig. Lang/ Lit Devices
100

PEOPLE

DEMO

100

ACROSS; DISTANCE

TELE

100

Astro

star

100

problem 

conflict

100

The sun kissed her skin and the wind wrapped itself around her long hair.

personification

200

GENO

BIRTH; ORIGIN

200

TO DRAG

TRACT

200

time

chron

200

conclusion

resolution

200

The caring and kind caretaker tucked him into bed.

Alliteration

300

MOST IMPORTANT

ARCH

300

SOL

THE SUN

300

writing

graph

300

beginning of the story where the setting, characters, and problem are introduced

exposition

300

How many hands do we need to build the house?

Synecdoche

400

PORT

TO CARRY

400

NEW

NEO

400

to cut

sect

400

highest point

climax

400

They spoke in their native tongue.

Metonymy

500

ACROSS ; THROUGH

TRANS

500

PALEO

OLD, ANCIENT

500

phob

fear

500

when the story is told in terms of "I, me, we, etc."

First-person narration

500

I will wait for a thousand years for you.

Hyperbole

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