Story Elements
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
Girl eats apple and sleeps deeply
A work of literature which is not true.
What is fiction?
The event that gets the plot rolling.
What is the rising action?
Typically the villain of the story.
What is antagonist?
Angry grump ruins christmas for everyone
The Grinch
Literature that takes place in space, or in the future, and often features advanced technology.
Science Fiction
The events immediately after the most intense part of the story.
What is falling action?
The sound effects of a story, when a word mimics a sound
Onomatopoeia
Super Villain ends up the hero
Literature which plot cannot occur in the real world. Typically contains witchcraft or magic.
What is fantasy?
The end of the story, the answer to the conflict.
Expressions that make sense in English but cannot be translated literally.
Idioms
family of 7 forgets youngest son.
Home Alone
Literature defined by stanzas and lines. Typically rhymes, but does not always.
What is poetry?
Beginning of the story where the setting/characters are introduced.
What is exposition?
shark unleashes chaos on beach community
Jaws
A piece of literature in which the author is also the subject of the story.
What is an autobiography?