Elements of Story
Elements of Literature
Elements of Drama
Elements of Poetry
Sound Devices
100
When and where a story takes place
What is setting?
100
The story is told by a character who is identified by words like “I,” “me,” or “my.”
What is first person point of view?
100
A situation in every play where people are in jeopardy
What is crisis?
100
Type of poetry that expresses personal thoughts and feelings
What lyric poetry?
100
The repetition of the first sounds of words
What is alliteration?
200
The introduction of the characters, setting, and conflict
What is exposition?
200
Clues or hints about something that will happen later in the plot
What is foreshadowing?
200
Includes a plays’ physical features: scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound, as well as the actors’ movements and the way they speak
What is staging?
200
A poem written in memory of the dead
What is an elegy?
200
Words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The part of the story that shows the highest point of the action; a crucial decision is made that helps determine how the story will end
What is the climax?
300
The author’s attitude toward the characters, plot, and the theme
What is tone?
300
A type of conflict that occurs when a character struggles with an outside force
What is external conflict?
300
A narrative having a second meaning beneath the surface one – a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning
What is an allegory?
300
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
What is assonance?
400
All the events that build up the conflict and develop the characters
What is rising action?
400
A character who tries to prevent the protagonist from reaching a goal or solving a problem
What is antagonist?
400
Includes the time, place, customs, political forces, cultural attitudes, and major events of the period.
What is historical context?
400
A poem defined by its length and formality. Often written to honor a special occasion or public event.
What is an ode?
400
Rhyming patterns IN the middle of lines
What is internal rhyme?
500
Characters who are well-developed, complex, and multidimensional
What are round characters?
500
The main idea, moral, lesson, or point the author is trying to make, such as hope, pride, jealousy, greed
What is theme?
500
Occurs when the audience or reader knows something a character does not know
What is dramatic irony?
500
How poetry is divided
What is a stanza?
500
Repeating the final consonant sounds of words or stressed syllables
What is consonance?
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