Literary Elements
Main character in a story
Term for the struggle between opposing forces in a story
What is conflict?
Point of view that uses "I" or "we" as a narrator
What is first person?
Sally sells seashells by the seashore
What is alliteration?
Term for the sequence of events in a story
What is plot
The opposing force in a story
What is antagonist?
Two main types of conflict in literature
What is internal and external conflict?
The term for the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
The classroom was a zoo during the substitute teacher's first day
What is metaphor?
The event that sets the main conflict of the story in motion
What is inciting incident?
The term for the process of creating and developing characters in a story
What is characterization?
Type of conflict that occurs within a character's mind or emotions
What is internal conflict?
Term for a narrator who is a character in the story and uses "you" as the subject
Second Person
I've told you a million times to clean your room!
What is hyperbole?
In the problem and solution text structure, this happens after the problem is introduced
What is solution?
Explicitly states a character's trait
What is direct characterization?
Challenging authority figures or oppressive systems
What is v. Society?
Point of view does the narrator only tell what is observable, without access to characters' thoughts
What is third person objective?
Bigger fish to fry
What is idiom?
Text structure that focuses on describing details, characteristics, or features sents events in chronological order
What is description?
Three ways indirect characterization reveal a character's traits
What is S.T.E.A.L
The six types of conflict
What is v. Self, v. Character, v. Society, v. Technology, v. Nature, v. Supernatural?
Point of view the narrator knows multiple characters' thoughts or feelings
The bees buzzed around the flowers
What is onomatopoeia?
Two types of texts commonly use a sequential text structure