Literary Elements #1
The time and place in which a story takes place.
a) character
b) setting
c) plot
d) foreshadowing
What is setting?
What is an
a) Leo was a very kind and thoughtful boy who loved helping new students.
b) Leo walked over to the new student and asked if he could sit with him.
c) Leo felt nervous and worried about making new friends in the cafeteria.
d) Leo was popular and sat at the largest table in the room every day.
What is B?
“As soon as I stepped onto the old wooden porch, the floorboards groaned beneath my boots, and I wondered if anyone was home.”
a) First-person
b) Second-person
c)Third-person limited
d) Third-person omniscient
What is first person?
the way the narrator feels about the events, setting, characters in the story
a) tone
b) conflict
c) dialouge
d) mood
What is tone?
"Time is money."
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What is metaphor?
A figure of speech in which something not human is described as if it were human.
a) hyperbole
b)allusion
c) foreshadowing
d) personification
What is personification
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about it as if it were another.
a) similie
b) metaphor
c) irony
d) personification
What is metaphor?
The time and place in which a story happens
a) plot
b) setting
c) conflict
d) theme
What is a setting
Man vs. self is one example
a) theme
b) plot
c) conclusion
d) internal conflict
e. external conflict
What is conflict?
"It's raining cats and dogs!"
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Idiom
A person, animal, or inanimate object that drives the story forward.
a) personification
b) settting
c) conflict
d) character
What is character.
a figure of speech using the words "like" or "as."
a) metaphor
b) similie
c) idiom
d) irony
What is a simile?
stands for or represents itself and something else.
a) hyperbole
b) symbol
c) metaphor
d) character
What is symbol?
the solution or outcome of a problem
a) resolution
b) conflict
c) plot
d) setting
What is a resolution?
"The moon smiled down on the Earth"
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What is personification?
what happens is the exact opposite of what was expected.
a) idiom
b) personification
c) irony
d) theme
What is irony?
a) A chef burns a meal while cooking dinner for friends.
b) A fire station burns down completely to the ground.
c) A student studies all night and receives an A+ on the test.
d) A weather forecaster predicts rain and carries an umbrella.
What is a fire station burns down completely to the ground?
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
a) metaphor
b) similie
c) personification
d) hyperbole
What is a hyperbole?
The main problem of the story, can be big or small
a) resolution
b) plot
c) conflict
d) characters
conflict
Once upon a time in the medieval kingdom of Florin, there was a giant castle over looking the cerulean ocean.
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What is setting?
the act of presenting materials that hint at events to occur later in the story.
a) personification
b)foreshadowing
c) point of view
d) mood
What is foreshadowing?
A vivid mental picture created in the reader's mind through language.
a) irony
b) idiom
c) imagery
d) foreshadowing
What is imagery?
A. A direct quote from another story
B. An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or work
C. A direct comparison using the words "like" or "as"
D. A detailed physical description of a character
What is an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or work
the perspective from which the story is told
a) character
b) mood
c) point of view
d) theme
What is point of view?
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Double points! what is this element?
What is simile?