Story Elements
Story Elements 2
Literary Terms
Literary Terms 2
Genre
100
the actin or sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
100
the art and science of written language in all its forms. Includes: poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, drama, novels, shorts stories, and essays.
What is literature?
100
contradictory or opposite terms.
What is an oxymoron?
100
use of words and details that appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
100
a short descriptive composition with little or not plot or larger narrative structure.
What is vignette?
200
The vantage point fro with the story is told.
What is point of view?
200
the beginning of the story in which the setting is established and the main characters are introduced.
What is exposition?
200
the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
a contrast between what is stated and what is really meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.
What is irony?
200
a composition in first person that relates a part of a story from that character's point of view.
What is a monologue?
300
the problem or struggle in the story.
What is conflict?
300
fully developed charaters
What are round characters?
300
something that stands for something else.
What is symbolism?
300
an image or idea that is repeated to establish unity and link the past, present, an future in a story.
What is motif?
300
a poem using the beginning letters in a name or other word.
What is an acrostic?
400
going back in time to recall an event. This interrupts the present action of the plot.
What is flashback?
400
the big idea or insight about life that the author wants the reader to extract from the work. Must be stated in a sentence.
What is theme?
400
a reference to a statement, person, event, or thing that is known or recognized form another literary source, history, pop culture, etc.
What is an allusion?
400
the use of clues to to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot of the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
a brief story with a moral, usually with animal characters.
What is a fable?
500
the background to a story; the physical location. Consists of both time and place.
What is the setting?
500
the feeling created in the reader by the author's use of details, word choice, and sentence length.
What is mood?
500
a reasonable conclusion about something that has happened or will happen in the story based on certain clues or facts provided by the author.
What is an inference?
500
any language that is not intended to be interpreted in the literal sense.
What is figurative language?
500
a story for children which often originated in oral tradition that contains magical elements or characters.
What is a fairy tale?
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