Stories
In this story, a young boy is terrorized by a woman who may or may not be crazy.
What is "The Elevator"?
This element of literature is the series of events in a story, and it centers on one main conflict.
What is the PLOT?
This element of literature is the time and place of the action.
What is the SETTING?
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This element of literature is a person, a place, an object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself. Double points if you can give an example (Miss Ritchie will determine if your example counts).
What is a SYMBOL?
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THIS is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Double points if you can name its OPPOSITE.
What is a SENTENCE?
What is a FRAGMENT?
In this story, suspense builds as a traveller repeatedly bothers a man driving cross-country.
What is "The Hitchhiker"?
This element of literature refers to the method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction.
What is the POINT OF VIEW?
This element of literature is a struggle between opposing forces; almost every story has one.
What is a CONFLICT?
This element of literature is what the story is about. (There can be multiple in a story.)
What is the TOPIC?
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THIS includes all words used to identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is about. Double points if you can identify it in this sentence:
The food in the school cafeteria is good.
What is a COMPLETE SUBJECT?
What is "The food in the school cafeteria"?
In this story, a man hears something that causes him to confess - despite the fact that it's not in his best interest!
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart?"
This element of literature occurs when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story. It creates suspense and makes readers eager to find out what will happen.
What is FORESHADOWING?
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This element of literature is the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. Double points if you can name one of the methods of creating this.
What is the MOOD?
What are descriptive words, imagery, setting, and figurative language?
This stage of the plot provides important background information and introduces the setting and the important characters. The conflict may also be introduced here, but it could be brought in during a later stage.
What is the EXPOSITION?
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THIS includes all the words that tell what the subject is doing or tell something about the subject. Double points if you can identify it in this sentence:
The giraffes eat leaves from tall trees.
What is the COMPLETE PREDICATE?
What is "eat leaves from tall trees"?
The story "The Elevator" did not include these TWO stages of the plot. You must name BOTH to get the points.
What are the falling action and the resolution?
This element of literature tells the story from outside the action, not one of the characters, but can see into the minds of all the characters.
What is a THIRD-PERSON OMNISCIENT point of view?
With this element of literature, the narrator is a character in the story.
What is FIRST-PERSON point of view?
This element of literature is a message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.
What is the THEME?
THIS is when the verb or part of the verb phrase comes before the subject in a sentence.
What is INVERTED ORDER?
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In "The Tell-Tale Heart," what type of conflict does the narrator face? Double points if you can name the CAUSE of this conflict - word for word.
What is a man vs. self, because of the "Evil Eye"?
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This element of literature is writing that helps a reader to picture events, objects, and characters. Double points if you can name what writers USE to create this element.
What is DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE?
What is IMAGERY?
This element of literature is the way a writer creates and develops characters.
What is CHARACTERIZATION?
*will not accept just "character" as it is in the definition!
A writer creates this element of literature by raising questions in the reader's mind.
What is SUSPENSE?
When a sentence has two or more subjects, or two or more verbs, they must be joined by THIS.
What is a CONJUNCTION?