Name the Literary Element
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What is the literary Element
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This tells the reader the time, location, environment where the story takes place.

What is the setting?

100

A person who tells the story.

Who is the narrator?

100

She smelled like a rose.

What is a simile?

100

A round object thrown into a net for points.

What is a basketball?

100

When an author hints at what is to come later in the narrative they are using ______

 

What is foreshadowing?

200

The author uses the same word or phrase a few times in a text

What is repetition?

200

It is the lesson or moral of the story .

What is the central idea/theme?

200

While George is a man of smaller stature, Lennie is large and tall. George is Lennie’s intelligent and quick-witted guardian because Lennie is intellectually disabled. Lennie is innocent and childlike, while George is cynical and worldly.

What is contrast?

200

Usain Bolt and Mr. Watson have this in common.

What is they are both from Jamaica?

200

John looked up at the American flag waving in the breeze and remembered why he began his long journey to the United States is an example of __________.

What is symbolism?

300

The author identifies differences between two subjects, places, persons, things, ideas, etc.

What is contrast?

300

An interruption of the chronological order of a story to show something that happened in the past in order to provide, for example, context or characterization.

What is a flashback?

300

I ran up and down every court

After every loose ball for you.

You asked for my hustle

I gave you my heart

Because it came with so much more.

What is characterization?

300

Small round candies that taste like the rainbow.

What are skittles?

300

The bright green grass, dusted lightly with the morning dew, swayed gently to the wind's rhythm is an example of __________

What is imagery?

400

This is usually caused by something external but the battle takes place within the character.

What is person versus self conflict?

400

It gives a thing, an idea, or an animal human qualities. For example: 

•The flowers are dancing beside the lake. 

What is personification?

400

Among the ruined sheds this was the only structure still whole, it still predominated over the yards, towering high above other buildings for hundreds of feet around.

What is setting?

400

These are the details that should be included in the introduction of an argumentative essay

What is your hook, claim, counterclaim, and reasons.

400

That woman is a devil in disguise is an example of a ______

What is a metaphor?

500

This reveals the narrator’s attitude as conveyed by their specific word choice.

What is tone?

500

The use of a word that resembles or suggests the sound that it describes. Example, "BAM", "ZAP", or "HISS".

What is onomatopoeia?

500

I tried to imitate the pleasant songs of the birds, but was unable. Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the horrible and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.

What is diction?

500

The first day of school for students in 2024.

What is Thursday, September 5th?

500

I’m so hungry, I can eat a whole cow is an example of __________

What is hyperbole?