Literary Elements
The time and place that a story takes place.
What is the setting?
The character that is the main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
The rhythmical pattern of a poem, consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
With this type of figurative language something non-human is granted human qualities or characteristics.
What is personification?
When the reader knows more than the characters in a story
What is dramatic irony?
What is narrative point of view?
Speech and actions, inner thoughts and feelings, physical appearance, and the opinions of others may each be used for this.
What is characterization?
When rhyme occurs within a line of poetry.
This type of comparison uses the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Something that stands for or represents something else
What is a symbol?
What is third person point of view?
This type of character does not experience growth.
What is a static character?
When a line of poetry is not end-stopped, and the unit of thought or sentence continues on to the next line.
What is enjambment?
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
A central message or insight of life that is revealed through a literary work
(sometimes this is presented simply as a question raised by a text)
What is a theme?
This explains why characters take certain actions or hold certain viewpoints. [It starts with "m."]
What is motivation?
This type of character is not a main character in a work of literature.
What is a minor character?
A pause or a stop at the end of a line of poetry. Usually this is indicated by some form of punctuation such as a period or comma.
When the first letters of words in a line of poetry begin with the same sound.
What is alliteration?
Difference between what is said and what is meant
What is (verbal) irony?
Sequence of events in a literary work, arranged for dramatic effect
What is plot?
This type of character changes over the course of a story. The change could be represented as a change perspective or values, based upon the events that have unfolded in the story.
What is a dynamic character?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The high point of interest or suspense in a narrative plot
What is the climax or turning point?
Struggle between opposing forces
[In a plot line, an "inciting incident" intensifies or creates this struggle]
What is conflict?