Literary Elements
Parts of a Plot
Story Elements
Author's Craft
Miscellaneous
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile
100
End of the story
What is the conclusion or denoument
100
The problem
What is the conflict
100
How the story goes; all the things that happen in the story
What is the plot
100
To make a smart assumption or educated guess
What is to infer
200
A comparison of two things.
What is a metaphor
200
The beginning/intro of a story
What is exposition
200
Time and place
What is the setting
200
The moral or lesson of the story
What is the theme
200
Whe the author persuades or inform
What is the author's purpose
300
Clues about what will happen
What is foreshadowing
300
The turning point/most exciting point in a story
What is the climax
300
The part of the story when the characters problem is fixed
What is the resolution
300
The way the writing makes the reader feel
What is mood
300
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
400
Sound words that are spelled like they sound
What is an onomatopoeia
400
Events after the climax
What is falling action
400
The main character
What is protagonist
400
The attitude of the author
What is tone
400
The repetition of beginning sounds in several neighboring words.
Alliteration
500
Giving human qualities to something not human
What is personification
500
Events before the climax
What is rising action
500
The character who opposes the main character
What is the antagonist
500
A poem about the adventures of a hero
Epic
500
A poem that has fourteen lines
Sonnet
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