Literary Elements
A person, animal or object/thing in a story.
What is Character?
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is Simile?
Comparing is showing similarities. Contrast shows differences.
What is Compare and Contrast?
The narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.
What is First Person Point of View?
The emotional atmosphere of the story.
What is Mood?
The time, place, and environment.
What is Setting?
The use of the same word or phrase multiple times.
What is Repetition?
One event causes another to happen. The cause is why it happened, and the effect is what happened
The reader is apart of the story.
What is Second Person Point of View?
The narrators attitude toward events and characters.
What is Tone?
The topic or message of a story.
What is Theme?
When two or more words begin with the same sound.
What is Alliteration?
If someone has a problem, they have to find a way of solving the problem. The way to solve it is called a solution.
What is Problem and Solution?
The narrator exists outside the events of the story, the author is narrating a story about the characters.
What is Third Person Point of View?
The author’s reason for writing a literary text.
What is Author's Purpose?
The perspective of who is telling the story.
What is Point of View?
A purposeful exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
Describes or gives information about things.
What is Description?
The narrator knows only one characters thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is Third Person Limited Point of View?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is Plot?
A word that imitates a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A timeline or order of events.
What is Chronology/Sequence?
The narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.
What is Third Person Omniscient Point of View?