Narrative Elements
Vocabulary
Conflict
Plot
Figurative Language
100

The people in a story

What are the characters

100
The term we use to describe the main character or principle actor in a narrative, the person with whom the reader most closely relates.
What is the protagonist
100

A struggle between opposing forces on the outside of the mind

What is external conflict

100
The moment of highest drama and tension in a narrative, in which the main conflict is confronted fully.
What is the climax
100

Creating a word that mimics a sound

What is onomatopoeia

200

The lesson you learn at the end of a story

What is the theme

200

A character in a narrative who is opposed to the protagonist or protagonists; a villain.

What is the antagonist

200

The main character of a story struggles against an animal or disaster in the world.

What is Person vs. Nature

200
The first part of a story arc where the setting is established and characters are introduced.
What is the exposition
200
A comparison that is made between two unrelated things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile
300

The setting of the story is the _______ and _______ it happens.

What is time and place.

300

I am getting awfully hungry. What is the adverb in the sentence?

What is awfully.

300

The main character in the story has a conflict with one other character

What is Person vs. Person

300
The point in the story arc where the main conflict is introduced and the tension begins to build.
What is the rising action
300

Mary made magnificent muffins on Monday.

What is an alliteration

400

The use of figures of speech to enhance meaning and add effect.

What is figurative language

400

The emotions surrounding a word, NOT it's dictionary definition.

What is the connotation

400

The main character is struggling against a community or their surroundings as a whole.

What is Person vs. Society

400
The point in the story arc where the characters have faced the main conflict and events begin falling into place.
What is the falling action
400

A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object. (Example: "The wind whispered throughout the house.")

What is personification

500

What sensory detail is included in the following text: The tartness of the lemonade made her pucker, while the sweetness of the sugar balanced it out 

What is taste

500

Which of the following words has a more positive connotation: Isolated or Independent

What is independent

500
A conflict that occurs within a person

What is an internal conflict

500
The final step in the story arc in which all loose ends of the narrative are tied up and the story concludes.
What is the resolution or denouement
500

The salsa was so hot my tongue began to melt.

What is hyperbole

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