Lit. Elements
Lit. Elements II
Lit Elements III
Lit Elements IV
Point of View
100
the person that wrote the story
What is the author?
100
The people, animals or other beings that take part in the story's action
What is the characters?
100
Another name for antagonist
What is foil?
100
the problem or struggle
What is the conflict?
100
the perspective of the story
What is point of view?
200
The main character
What is the protagonist?
200
The person that gets in the way of the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
200
The person or character telling the story
What is the narrator?
200
the time and place of a story
What is the setting?
200
uses I, me, we, us
What is first person?
300
The four types of conflicts
What is character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. nature, character vs. society?
300
what's happened in the story
What is plot?
300
The three things in the exposition
What is setting, characters, other facts?
300
the words spoken between two or more characters
What is dialogue?
300
uses you, your
What is second person?
400
The lesson a story teaches
What is a moral?
400
The writer's attitude toward his/her writing?
What is tone?
400

the way a writer creates and develops a character

What is characterization?

400
everything that happens in the story
What is action?
400
uses words like he, she, they. The reader can see into all the characters' minds.
What is third person omniscient?
500
Atmosphere of a story
What is mood?
500
The order of a plot line
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
500
the message about life that a work of literature conveys
What is the theme?
500
the part in the story where they are trying to solve the problem
What is falling action?
500
uses words like he, she, they. The reader can only look into one character's mind.
What is third person limited?
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