Narrative Elements
Show, Don't Tell
Characters & Conflict
PLOT
Literary Devices
100

When and Where the story takes place is called:

Setting

100

This is a person, place or thing and is a concrete example used to "show" your ideas.

concrete noun or noun

100

The person who drives the action and faces the main obstacle in a story.

Protagonist

100

The main conflict in the story is called?

Climax

100

Repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words in a poem is called:

Alliteration

200

The overall structure of the story.

PLOT

200

This is a part of speech that shows action (not “is,” “was,” or "seems")

Action Verb

200

The character who opposes the main character.

Antagonist

200

The part of the Plot where we learn about the setting.

Exposition

200

Giving human traits to non-human things.

Personification

300

They way we see and hear a story through a narrator.

Point of View

300

This detail for "showing" in writing, uses our 5 inputs to understand the world.

Senses or sensory detail.

300

A battle between a character and a large white whale would be classified as what type of conflict?

Person vs. Nature

300

The part of the plot when conflict first starts to increase.

Rising Action

300

A comparison between two different things showing how they are similar in many "implied" ways

Metaphor 
400

The struggle between two opposing forces in a story.

Conflict

400

Instead of talking in general about your whole day -- to "show" better in your writing you should:

ZOOM IN on one specific detail, focused moment or short period of time.

400

The two types of conflict that Maria Fernanda faced were: person vs. self and person vs. ? 

Person vs. society

400

The "Y" Axis in the Plot graph is labeled this.

Stress, conflict, problems, or tension. 

400

When an physical object takes on deeper significance and represents non-physical ideas: A rose means love.

Symbolism  

500

The word choice of an author is called:

Diction

500

One common mistake in weak writing is to is to use these parts of speech to prop up your weak verbs

Adverbs

500

The character type that is a reflection of another character.  Seen as an opposite.

FOIL

500

The part of the plot when we learn a lesson and there is a conclusion to the story.

The Dénouement 

500

Using exaggeration for emphasis.

Hyperbole

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