Literary Elements
What is plot?
The voice of the narrator; the perspective of the person who is telling the story.
What is point of view?
This is rhyming that occurs within a line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
The high point or turning point of a story.
What is the climax?
The problem in a story between a character and an outside force.
What is external conflict?
The time, place and environment of a story.
What is setting?
Words that sound like the things they name.
What is onomatopoeia?
A direct comparison of two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
Information about the setting and characters that is revealed at the beginning of a story.
What is exposition?
The description of a character's physical and personality traits.
What is characterization?
A struggle within a character; when the problem involves a major decision.
What is internal conflict?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
What is alliteration?
What is personification?
The sequence of events that lead to the climax of a story and also increase the level of suspense.
What is rising action?
The author's feeling or attitude toward the subject, characters and readers.
What is tone?
The reactions and emotions that a text inspires within a reader.
What is a reader's mood?
This is repetition of consonant sounds within a line of poetry.
What is consonance?
A comparison of two unlike things using the terms like or as.
What is a simile?
The outcome of a story.
What is resolution?
A word or image that stands for something else; an object which represents another concept or abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
The reason or purpose for an author to write a text.
What is author's purpose?
The repetition of identical or similar sounds.
What is rhyme?
Language that goes beyond the literal meanings of words or phrases to be more effective, impactful or persuasive.
What is figurative language?
Following the climax, this part of the plot ties up loose ends and brings the story to the outcome.
What is falling action?