Basic Elements
Literary Devices
Literary Elements
Stylistic Devices
Plot
100
One of the people or animals in a story.
What is a character?
100

A Comparison that uses "like" or "as".

What is a simile?

100

The angle by which a story is told. The angle depends upon the narrator, or person telling the story.

What is Point of View?

100
The message about life or human nature that is "hidden" in the story that the writer tells.
What is Theme?
100

A problem between characters

What is Conflic?

200
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
200

Giving human qualities to inanimale objects.

What is personification?

200
One of the characters in the story is telling the story. (I, me)
What is First-Person Point of View?
200
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
What is Mood?
200
This introduces characters and settings while supplying background and setting the tone.
What is Exposition?
300
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
300

An object, place, person that stands for something beyond itself.

What is symbolism?

300

 This is an exaggeration that rhymes with holymoly 

What is Hyperbole?

300

An appeal to the readers' emotions.

What is Pathos?

300
This introduces complications (problems) which build suspense and is when the plot "thickens."
What is Rising Action?
400
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
400

The use of vivid language and sensory details to help a reader visualize a text.

What is imagery?

400

A pattern, character type, setting type, or theme that appears throughout literature worldwide

What is an archetype?

400
The attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature.
What is Tone?
400
This is the turning point of the story and the moment when the suspense reaches its peak which results in a change for the main character. This sometimes occurs at the end of the story, without being followed by the falling action.
What is the Climax?
500

The general storyline

What is the Plot?

500

A comparison between two different things or ideas that share something in common.

What is a metaphor?

500

Point of view that allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feelings of  characters in a story.

What is Third-Person?

500
The serious, funny, or satiric attitude or feeling revealed by the characters, word choice, and general writing style in literature.
What is Tone?
500
This occurs after the climax of the story, resolves conflict and ties up loose ends of the story.
What is the Falling Action/Resolution?
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