Story Elements
Writer's tools
Poetry
Traditional Stories
Hodge Podge
100
time and place of a story
What is the setting?
100
a comparison between two unlike things using like or as AND a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
What is a simile AND a metaphor?
100
the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is rhyme?
100
a brief story that teaches a lesson, or moral, about human nature
What is a fable?
100
a feeling the writer creates for the readers
What is the mood?
200
the most exciting moment (what everything else builds up to)
What is the climax?
200
a person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself
What is a symbol?
200
the use of a word, phrase, or line more than once
What is repetition?
200
a traditional story that was created to explain the mysteries of the universe
What is a myth?
200
when the author hints at future events, helps you predict what will happen next
What is foreshadowing?
300
the parts of the story that build the suspense AND the part that eases the suspense and reveals the beginning of the resolution
What is rising action and falling action?
300
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
What is personification?
300
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
300
a long, narrative poem, often written in formal language, that tells about a series of quests undertaken by a great hero
What is an epic?
300
a message about life or human nature that a writer wants you to understand
What is a theme?
400
introduces the setting and characters, gives background information to help understand the story
What is the exposition?
400
a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect
What is a hyperbole?
400
the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhythm?
400
a humorously exaggerated story about impossible events
What is a tall tale?
400
a group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem (like a paragraph in other writing)
What is stanza?
500
the struggle between a character and an outside force AND a struggle within a character's mind
What is an external conflict AND an internal conflict?
500
the dictionary definition of the word AND the ideas and feelings associated with the word
What is denotation AND connotation?
500
the use of words that sound like their meanings
What is an onomatopoeia?
500
a story passed down through many generations that is believed to be based on real people and events
What is a legend?
500
a character that changes throughout the story AND a character who stays the same throughout the story
What is a dynamic character AND a static character?
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