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Who is telling the story?
Argument and Persuasion
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Literary Devices
100

The literary term for the person telling the story.

What is the narrator?

100

The part of an argument when you state what side of the argument you are taking. 

What is the claim?

100

A struggle between two opposing forces in a story.

What is the conflict?

100
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
100

When a character or narrator pauses to remember something that happened prior to the current action. 

What is a flashback?

200
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
200

The part of the argument when you give the opposite side of the argument (the side you are not arguing for). 

What is the counterclaim?

200
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
200
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
200

A device in which a writer places clues in a story to prepare the reader for events that are going to happen later.

Who is the foreshadowing?

300

When a character in the story tells the story and pronouns such as I, we, us, and me suggests what point of view is being used?

What is first person point of view?

300

A persuasive appeal that uses logic and reason. Hint:  It is a Greek word and we learned about 3 different persuasive appeals. 

What is logos?

300

The most exciting part of the story 

Climax

300
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
300

When the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected to happen. 

What is situational irony? 

400

When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story and the readers have insight into a single character's mind and innermost thoughts, but not those of all characters, this is what point of view?

What is third person limited point of view?

400

A persuasive appeal that uses emotion (pulls at people's heart strings). 

What is the pathos?

400

The literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.

What is the character?

400
"The brother of the brave brown bear is a cowardly lion" is an example of what literary term?
What is alliteration?
400

When the readers are aware of events or circumstances in a story of which the characters have no knowledge. 

What is dramatic irony? 

500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, this is known as which point of view?
What is 3rd person omniscient point of view?
500

A persuasive appeal that relies on credibility and trustworthiness (and sometimes celebrities). 

What is the ethos?

500

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses. 

What is imagery?

500
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
500

The main idea or message that a literary work conveys. 

What is theme?