Literary Elements
Literary Techniques
Dialogue
Publishing
Miscellaneous
100
The actual story line.
What is plot?
100
This relies on a lot of sensory description.
What is imagery?
100
Each time a new person speaks another one of these begins.
What is a paragraph?
100
This is a long story typically broken into multiple chapters or sections with an overarching plot.
What is a novel?
100
These literary devices are not required to be a part of a story.
What are literary techniques?
200
Includes the when and where of a story.
What is setting?
200
Alliteration is the repetition of this type of sound at the beginning of words.
What is a consonant?
200
These sentence enders should always go inside of quotation marks.
What is punctuation?
200
This is used to pitch a story for publication.
What is a novel proposal or synopsis?
200
Alternating between the past and present each chapter is a choice with this literary element.
What is narrative method?
300
The climax of a narrative typically resolves this.
What is conflict?
300
"Break a leg" is an example of this.
What is irony?
300
A character speaking in slang is an example of this.
What is dialect?
300
This person is the middle man between authors and publishers.
What is a literary agent?
300
Protagonists and antagonists who are opposites are also examples of this technique.
What are foil characters?
400
The "I" in a first person point of view.
Who is the narrator?
400
Mickey Mouse, Scooby Doo, Nemo, and Bugs Bunny all have this in common.
What is personification?
400
A period ending dialogue may change to one of these if there is a tag following it.
What is a comma?
400
This is a completed draft of a novel.
What is a manuscript?
400
This type of storyteller might say something like "I tend to not tell the truth."
What is an unreliable narrator?
500
This literary element is not always required.
What is dialogue?
500
I story where a character grows emotionally is an example of one of these.
What is bildungsroman?
500
This is used in place of quotation marks when there is a quote within a quote.
What are apostrophes?
500
This short summary of events is designed to gain the interest of potential readers without giving away too much.
What is a book sleeve blurb?
500
Any sentence using a "to be" verb is told in this type of voice.
What is passive voice?
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