Story Line I
Figurative LanguageI
Story Line II
FigurativeLanguageII
Literary Elements
100
The problem or struggle that starts the action in a story.
What is a conflict?
100
Bobby builds big bunk beds.
What is alliteration?
100
A group of good characters in a story trying to fight off evil.
What is protagonists?
100
A successive line of literature with repetitious initial sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
The message about life a story relays to the reader.
What is the theme?
200
The part of a story in which the problem of struggle is solved.
What is the resolution?
200
The wind whistled in the night air.
What is personification?
200
A fight within oneself.
What is internal conflict?
200
A direct comparison not using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
200
The feeling a story creates in the reader.
What is mood?
300
The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
What is the setting?
300
Life is like a box of chocolates.
What is a simile?
300
The bad guy in a story.
What is an antagonist?
300
Applying human qualities or behavior to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
300
Words describing a sense-related picture.
What is imagery?
400
The turning point in a story.
What is the climax?
400
Life is a dream.
What is a metaphor?
400
A conversation between two characters in a story.
What is dialogue?
400
A comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
400
The contrast between what happens and what was expected.
What is situational irony?
500
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY** The action or sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
500
She is as big as a house.
What is a hyperbole?
500
Actions leading up to the turning point in a story.
What is rising action?
500
The ball of fire rises each morning over the horizon.
What is a metaphor?
500
Clues that may help the reader predict what will happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
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