Literary Elements
What's Going On?
Let me Pesuade you!
What a Character!
It's about Rhyme
100
A comparison of two or more things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a similie?
100
The chart we use to describe the arc of a story.
What is a plot chart?
100
The thesis statement that tells your position on an issue.
What is a claim?
100
The main character in a short story or novel.
What is the protaganist?
100
A short poem which deals with feelings and emotions.
What is a lyric poem?
200
Associations that people make with words that goes beyond the dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
200
The part of a story where you learn the characters, setting, etc.
What is the exposition
200
What you should include in a persuasive paper to offer an answer to it?
What is a counterargument?
200
A character that does not change during the course of a narrative.
What is a static character?
200
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose.
What is a stanza?
300
The literary device used for expressing the resistance a character finds in trying to achieve his aims or dreams
What is conflict?
300
The turning point in a story.
What is the climax?
300
Words or phrases that are intended to inspire emotion in the reader.
What is loaded language?
300
When a story is told from the viewpoint of the character.
What is first person?
300
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
400
The literary element that is used to show the author's attitude towards a particular topic.
What is tone?
400
Events leading up to the turning point.
What is rising action?
400
A type of appeal that targets how the the reader feels and reacts to a subject.
What are emotional appeals?
400
A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
400
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
500
The writing practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects and animals.
What is personification?
500
End of the story.
What is the resolution?
500
A claim that many people make, but cannot always prove.
What are commonplace assertions?
500
This type of characterization TELLS the audience what the personality of the character is.
What is direct characterization?
500
A poet uses words that appeals the the five senses.
What is imagery or sensory language?
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