Story Elements
The time and place of a story
What is the setting?
A comparison that uses "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
To break apart and think through
What is Analyze?
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
What is alliteration?
This offers a concise summary of the main point or claim of the essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The message the author is trying to convey
What is the theme?
An extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning an educated guess
What is inference?
Crash, bang, boom
What is onomatopoeia?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The action that leads to the climax
What is the rising action?
an inanimate object, abstract idea, or animal is given human abilities or characteristics
What is Personification?
To give a brief statement of the main facts
What is summarize?
EOC's are the worst thing in the world.
What is a hyperbole?
The use of a concrete image to represent an abstract idea
What is Symbolism?
The struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
Contradictory terms that appear next to each other
What is Oxymoron?
To tell how something works
What is explain?
Preparing for the EOC is like getting a root canal.
What is a simile?
The feeling or atmosphere created by the author in a literary work
What is Mood?
the mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel.
What is tone?
a contradictory statement which actually makes sense or contains some truth
What is a Paradox?
To show how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
The pie was awfully good.
What is an oxymoron?
a group of lines in a poem or song that constitute a division (like a paragraph)
What is a stanza?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of ALL characters in a story.
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
A reference to something that is well known to the audience.
What is allusion?
Double Points:A line of writing that consists of 10 syllables in a specific pattern of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
The camel is the ship of the desert.
What is a Mataphor?
A recurrent character in literature in all cultures
What is an archetype?