Literary Elements
When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Tells the story of someone's life.
Biography
When the narrator is a character in the story. This point of view uses pronouns such as “I”, “we”, or “me.”
First-person
a comparison drawn between two or more unlike things
Metaphor
Giving human qualities to non-human object
Personification
Background material about the characters, setting, and basic situation.
Exposition
Tells you how to complete a task, solve a problem, or perform a procedure.
Procedural Text
When the narrator speaks directly to the reader. This point of view uses pronouns such as “you.”
Second-person
a comparison drawn between two or more unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as')
Simile
The lesson the author is trying to teach- the moral of the story.
Theme
The part of the story in which there is a sharp decline in dramatic tension.
Falling Action
A book that someone writes about his or her own life
Auto-biography
When the narrator is not a character in the story. This point of view uses “he,” “she,” and “they.”
Third-person
an exaggeration or impossible statement
A set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words
Idiom
Events that bring the story to a close.
Resolution/ Denouement
A writing or speech that explains or informs something
Expository text/ informational text
A third person narrator who has access to the thoughts and feelings of many characters in the story. Meaning the narrator is all-knowing and the narrator can read the character’s minds.
Third-person omniscient
The way the writer feels
Tone
What does the word diminished mean?
Been reduced
When the character in the story is struggling with someone or something other than himself
External Conflict
Presents the writer's memory of a specific and often historic event.
Memoir
A third person narrator who only shares the thoughts and feelings of one or some characters, but not all of the characters. This point of view is limited in how all-knowing it is.
Third-person limited
to describe words that look like the sound they are describing
Onomatopoeia
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds
Alliteration