Literary Elements #1
Refers to the time and place in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
The main character of a story, novel, or play.
What is the protagonist?
A person who tells the story.
What is Narrator?
The end of a narrative.
What is resolution?
A repeating consonant sound at the beginning of words. Ex: The busy bee buzzed and bounced around.
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
The point of view in which the narrator is telling the story through their own perspective.
What is First Person Point of View.
A literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
What is a conflict?
Refers to the central, deeper meaning of a written work. (A general life lesson)
What is theme?
What is the following an example of:
BAM!
What is an Onomatopoeia?
(A word which mimics the sound it represents.)
The author's attitude towards what they are writing about.
What is tone.
a figure of speech in which two essentially dissimilar objects or concepts are expressly compared with one another through the use of “like” or “as."
What is a simile?
Creates direct comparisons without the express use of “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
When the author uses words to appeal to the 5 senses to create a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
_______ is the feeling the readers feel when reading the piece of writing.
What is Mood.
A type of conflict in which the main character battles with themselves.
What is internal conflict?
(Person vs self)
Used to provide beginning, essential information for characters, plot, and other narrative elements.
What is exposition?
When an object represents something else. Ex: Roses represent love.
What is a symbol?
When the protagonist battles someone/something other than themselves.
What is external conflict?
(Person vs Person, Person vs Nature, Person vs Society)
When the reader gets a hint about what might happen later.
What is foreshadowing?
The character in opposition with the Protagonist.
What is Antagonist?
When you give human traits to nonliving things. Ex: The wind whispered to me.
What is personification?
When someone says something that is the opposite of what they mean. Ex: After getting into a car accident, John said "Great! This is just what I needed today!"
What is verbal irony?
A scene that is set in a time earlier than the main story
What is a flashback?
When making reference to another written-form of text within a story.
What is allusion?