Elements of Fiction
The time and place of a story
What is the Setting?
The story is told by a person in the story. Uses pronouns "I, me, we, my."
What is first-person point of view?
Telling how things are the same or similar
What is compare?
Means to hear
What is "aud"?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
People, animals, etc. in a story
What are characters?
The author gives instructions to the reader directly. Uses the pronoun "you," or the understood you.
What is second person point of view?
Telling how things are different
What is contrast?
Means life
What is "bio"?
An extreme exaggeration
The problem in a story
What is the conflict?
The narrator is someone outside the story. Uses pronouns "he, she, they."
What is third person point of view?
Graphic organizer for comparing and contrasting
Means water
What is "hydro"?
What is alliteration?
the sequence of events that make up the narrative, outlining what happens and why it happens, often involving a conflict or problem that the main character must overcome
What is the Plot?
Third person point of view in which the narrator only knows and describes the thoughts and feelings of one character
What is third person LIMITED point of view?
The moral of the story; the lesson the character has learned, and you could apply to your life as well.
What is theme?
Means light
What is "photo"?
A word that makes its sound
What is onomatopoeia?
What is chronological order?
Third person point of view in which the narrator knows and describes the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all characters
What is third person omniscient?
What is main idea?
2 roots that mean earth
What is "geo" and "terr/terra"?
Giving nonhuman things qualities of a human being
What is personification?