Literary Elements
Lit Elements 2
"All's Fair in Love and War"
Oh, The Irony
All About Characters
100
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
100
The life lesson of a story.
What is theme?
100
In "An Orange" the setting changes from 1971 on a warm bus to 1941 in gloomy Auschwitz. This is an example of...
What is flashback?
100
Irony is when something occurs that is the opposite or what a reader ________________________.
What is expects?
100
The process in which an author reveals information about a character.
What is Characterization?
200
The struggle between two opposing forces. Anything in a story that causes tension.
What is conflict?
200
The most exciting, last conflict of a story. Hint-think plot.
What is Climax?
200
The princess from the "Princess and the Tin Box" begins the story spoiled and rich and ends the story spoiled and rich. This is an example of...
What is a static character.
200
This type of irony is a lot like sarcasm.
What is Verbal Irony?
200
"Johnny is a jerk," is an example of what type of characterization?
What is direct characterization?
300
When you break a law, this is an example what specific type of conflict?
What is man vs. society?
300
List the four types of external conflicts.
What is man vs. man nature technology society?
300
"Never trust a stranger before getting to know the person first," is an example of what from "The Most Dangerous Game"?
What is theme?
300
This type of irony happens when both the reader and the characters aren't expecting the outcome.
What is Situational Irony?
300
Characters that do not change over the course of the story.
What is a static character?
400
This is who your theme statements should always apply to.
Who is everyone?
400
The author leaves clues or hints about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
In "The Lottery" the little boys gathering stones and Tessie shouting, "It isn't fair" are examples of what?
What is foreshadowing?
400
When the reader knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony.
400
Characters that have an inner change or a change in attitude over the course of a story.
What is a dynamic character?
500
What are the three parts to a story's setting?
What is time, place and atmosphere?
500
The story will break from the current setting to an event that happened in the past.
What is flashback?
500
What is the quote that ties our whole short story unit together?
What is "All's fair in love and war"?
500
This type of irony is used at the end of "The Sniper" when the sniper rolls over the body and discovers that he has killed his own brother.
What is situational irony?
500
What are the four ways we can assign character traits through indirect characterization?
What is a character's thoughts, words, action, and reactions from other characters.
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