Literary Elements
A clue or indication of a future event
What is foreshadow?
A very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one
What is precipice?
A short story that uses about a wolf watching her husband turn into a human
What is "The Wife's Story"?
A piece of a sentence that doesn't form a complete thought
What is a fragment?
The main events of a play, novel, or movie
What is the plot?
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence
What is philosophical?
Set in a town where every year they stone a person to death to get a good harvest of crops
What is "The Lottery"?
Two or more independent clauses combined with a comma and a conjunction
What is a compound sentence?
Includes the series of events that increases tension
What is the rising action?
comparing two ideas with like or as
What is a simile?
Poor enough to need help from others
What is destitute?
A play about the murder investigation of John Wright, in which his own wife is the prime suspect
A group of words that stand alone
What is a independent clause?
A universal idea, lesson, or message that is explored throughout a story
What is theme?
The same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration?
Be confusing or perplexing to
What is confound?
Has satire throughout the story of a man's journey who is in search of the best of all possible worlds
What is "Candide"?
A sentence with one or more dependent clauses combined with an independent clause
What is a complex sentence?
When tension starts to decrease nearing the end of the story
What is falling action?
A scene in a movie or novel that is set in a time earlier than the main story
What is flashback?
Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
What is virtuoso?
Talks about using cannibalism as a solution for famine
What is "The Modest Proposal"?
One or more dependent clauses with two or more independent clauses
What is a compound/ complex sentence?
The atmosphere of the story that is created by the means of setting, attitude, and description
What is mood?