Literary Text Types
Story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting.
What is historical fiction?
The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or connected words
What is alliteration?
The emotional atmosphere of a story or text; moo elicit feelings from the _______.
What is mood?
A person, animal, or other being used in a literary work to perform the action, speak dialogue, and/or move the plot forward.
What is character?
Features magic, supernatural elements, and world-building.
What is fantasy?
These are inflated or overstatements or claims not to be taken literally; intentional exaggeration to emphasize a point.
What is hyperbole?
A writer's feeling toward a subject, character, or audience.
What is tone?
The series of events included in a narrative.
What is plot?
Focuses on futuristic technology, space travel, or alternate histories.
What is science fiction?
Giving human characteristics and/or qualities to non-human beings.
What is personification?
The type of narrator used to tell a story.
What is Point of View?
This is the beginning of a story. Characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
Stories featuring believable characters and situations that could happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
A word that mimics the sound it represents.
What is onomatopoeia?
This help readers interpret a writer's meaning and allow a writer to articulate more abstract and complex concepts in an understandable way.
What is a figurative language?
The most important part of the story; the turning point.
What is climax?
Humorous story with blatant exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do the impossible with nonchalance.
What is tall tale?
Words used that are usually common to speakers of certain languages that may be different from their literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
These are the characters, setting, and important events that move the plot forward in a literary work.
What are story elements?
This is when the character work to solve the problem or conflict.
What is falling action?