Elements of Fiction
This is the only type of conflict that is NOT an external conflict.
Internal conflict
(A character battling themselves somehow)
The most important moment in a story; usually a main character changes after this point.
What is the climax?
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
What figurative language is used in the sentence above?
What is a simile?
What is the term for finding quotes and using them to strengthen a claim?
The series of events that make up the story.
What is the plot?
Type of conflict that occurs when a character's values, beliefs, or actions clash with the expectations or laws of the society they live in.
Character vs. society
The message about life or lesson the reader is supposed to learn from a text
What is theme?
The point of view where the narrator is the main character in the story.
What is 1st person point of view?
What type of figurative language is this:
He has a heart of gold.
metaphor (direct comparison to something else)
The two words that make up the setting in a story.
What is time and place or when and where?
The feeling the reader experiences when reading a text is called what?
Mood
What types of questions make you use what you know and what you have read in order to find the answer?
What are INFERENCES?
"Treat others the way you want to be treated" is an example of what element of fiction?
What is a theme?
Which point of view does the narrator know all the thoughts and feelings of all characters and is not a character in the story?
What is 3rd person omniscient?
a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
Example: A fire station catches fire and burns down.
The way the author feels about the topic they're writing about
What is tone?
What figurative language is this?
The wind howled through the trees, shaking the branches, trying to wake them up.
Personification
(Something non-human given human like qualities)
The character or thing going against the main character is called this.
What is the antagonist?
What is Hyperbole?
An extreme overstatement or exaggeration.
"My brain is going to explode after that math test!"
"I am dying of thirst."