Elements
of Plot
of Plot
Events that lead to the climax.
What is rising action?
Giving nonliving objects human qualities.
What is personification?
Sound effects used as words.
What is an onomatopoeia?
The reason the author wrote the story.
What is author's purpose?
Where & when the story takes place?
What is setting?
The most intense part of the story.
What is climax?
Disrupting the chronological flow by interjecting past events.
What is flashback?
The method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
The vantage point from which the story is told.
Point of view
Series of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
The conclusion.
What is resolution or denouement?
Comparing 2 things with each other.
What is a metaphor?
Repeating consonant sound in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
The way a writer uses a language when writing.
Author's style.
The category a written work is listed in based on certain distinguishing characteristics.
What is genre?
The unraveling of problems after the climax.
What is falling action?
What is allusion?
Repeating vowel sound in a sentence.
What is assonance?
The way the author reveals information to bring a character to life.
What is characterization?
What is motivation?
Gives background information about the story.
What is exposition?
An reoccurring idea, object, image, or metaphor in a work.
What is a motif?
A comparison that extends over multiple lines.
What is extended metaphor?
Literary device that reflects writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience (that sets the mood).
In storytelling, this is a repeated model of a character.
What is archetype?