literary Elements 1
This gives you a clue that something is about to happen in a story
foreshadowing
The big idea that a story is trying to tell you about life, people, or love
What is the theme?
Something that represents something else
What is a symbol?
Comparing two things that are not alike
She is a witch
What is a metaphor?
I could sleep forever.
What is a hyperbole?
This is the main character in a story we are rooting for
The Protagonist
The way a story makes you feel
What is the mood?
The character working against the main character in a story
What is the antagonist
What two things can the color red symbolize
What is love and anger?
"Tick tock" of a clock, "ding dong" of a doorbell.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the problem the characters have to solve that creates all the action
conflict
The beginning, middle, and end of a story.
What is the plot?
How the conflict of a story is solved
What is the resolution?
What can black symbolize in a movie or story?
What is death?
The wind screamed through the air.
What is personification.
Where and when the story takes place
What is the setting?
When a non living thing is given human characteristics
What is personification
a writer's attitude toward the subject or characters
What is tone?
The color green can symbolize this
What is growth and fertility
Love is blind.
What is a metephor?
The information you get about what happened before the story began
the exposition
The most exciting part of the story, or the turning point
What is the climax?
I comparison using like or as:
She is as mean as a wicth
What is a simile
What can the color white symbolize?
What is purity?
When he goes to a new place he is like a fish out of water.
What is a simile?