Literary Elements
Literary Techniques
Parts of a Story
Miscellaneous
Parts of Speech
100
Characters
What are the people or animals in a story?
100
Foreshadowing
What is a hint about what may happen in the future?
100
Exposition
What is how characters and setting are introduced?
100
Mood
What is the overall feeling of a story?
100
Noun
What is a person, place, or thing?
200
Plot
What is what happens in the story?
200
Flashback
What is when a character in the present begins to talk about the past?
200
Climax
What is the turning point in a story, or the peak?
200
Protagonist
Who is the main character- the good guy.
200
Verb
What is an action?
300
Setting
What is the time and place of a story?
300
Simile
What is comparing two things using "like" or "as"?
300
Resolution
What is when the conflict is resolved- at the end of the story?
300
Inference.
What is making a logical guess based on facts?
300
Adjective
What describes the noun?
400
Theme
What is the overall message of the story?
400
Metaphor
What is comparing two things without using "like" or "as"?
400
Two types of conflict.
What are internal and external?
400
Antagonist
Who is the enemy of the protagonist- the bad guy?
400
Adverb
What describes the verb or action- usually has -ly on the end?
500
Imagery
What are the visual images in a story?
500
The problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
500
Preposition
What is a word that combines with a noun or pronoun? Ex: from, until, over
500
Proper Noun
What is the proper name of a noun? Ex: George gervin Technology Ctr
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