Literary Elements 1
Literary Elements 2
Literary Elements 3
Literary Elements 5
100
What is language that appeals to the senses?
Imagery
100
What is a gross exaggeration?
Hyperbole
100
What is the attitude a writer takes towards his subject, character or the reader?
Tone
100

A person, animal, or inanimate object that drives the story forward.

 Character

200
When the writer shows what a character is like through the character's thoughts, actions, and physical description.
Indirect characterization
200

A struggle between 2 opposing forces

Conflict

200

A figure of speech in which something not human is described as if it were human.

Personification

200
When the writer tell us exacty what a character is like?
direct characterization
300

The time and place in which a story takes place.

 Setting

300

What is symbolism?

When a word or object stands in for something of bigger significance.  

300
What is the author's method of revealing what a character is like?
Characterization
300

"Time is money." 

This is an example of - 

Metaphor

400
What is an interruption of the present action of the plot to show events that happened earlier in time?
Flashback
400
What is a 14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter?
Sonnet
400

What is the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.

Assonance

400
What is the vantage point from which a writer narrates or tells the story?
Point of View
500

What is a comparison between two things to show how they are alike?

Analogy

500
What is a play on the multiple meaning of a word or tow words that sound alike but have different meanings?
Pun
500
What is the use of clues to hint at events that wil occur later in the plot.
Foreshadowing
500

A figure of speech using the words "like" or "as.

Simile

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