Narrative Elements
When and Where the story takes place is called:
Setting
This is a person, place or thing and is a concrete example used to "show" your ideas.
Parts of Speech: Adjective, Interjection, Adverb, Noun, Verb, Preposition, Article, Conjunction
concrete noun or noun
The person who drives the action and faces the main obstacle in a story.
Protagonist
The largest point of conflict in the story is called?
Climax
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words in a poem is called:
Porcelain, Painted Ponies
Alliteration
The overall structure of the story.
PLOT
This part of speech shows action:
Parts of Speech: Adjective, Interjection, Adverb, Noun, Verb, Preposition, Article, Conjunction
Action Verb
The character who opposes the main character.
Antagonist
The part of the Plot where we learn about the setting.
Exposition or Introduction
Giving human traits to non-human things:
The pencil walked off the table.
Personification
They way we see and hear a story through a narrator.
Point of View
This detail for "showing" in writing, uses our 5 inputs to understand the world.
Senses or sensory detail.
A battle between a character and a large white whale would be classified as what type of conflict?
Person vs. Nature
The part of the plot when conflict first starts to increase.
Rising Action
A comparison between two different things showing how they are similar in many "implied" ways:
He is a moster.
Metaphor
The struggle between two opposing forces in a story.
Conflict
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.
The two types of conflict that Maria Fernanda faced were: person vs. self and person vs. ?
Person vs. society
The "X" Axis in the Plot graph is labeled this.
Time
When an physical object takes on deeper significance and represents non-physical ideas: A rose means love.
Symbolism
The word choice of an author is called:
Diction
One common mistake in weak writing is to is to use these parts of speech to prop up your weak verbs.
Parts of Speech: Adjective, Interjection, Adverb, Noun, Verb, Preposition, Article, Conjunction
Adverbs
The character type that is a reflection of another character. Seen as an opposite.
FOIL
The "Y" Axis in the Plot graph is labeled this.
Stress, conflict, problems, or tension.
Using exaggeration for emphasis:
I am starving to death!
Hyperbole