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Basic Elements
Conflict
Author's Purpose
Stylistic Devices
Figurative Language
100
One of the people or animals in a story.
What is a character?
100
A problem between characters.
What is Person Against Person?
100

The reason for or intent in writing.  

What is Author's Purpose?

100
The message about life or human nature that is "hidden" in the story that the writer tells.
What is Theme?
100

The use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or evocative comparison.

What is Figurative Language?

200
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
200
A problem within a character's own mind..
What is a Problem Against Self?
200

This story is written to educate the audience. 

What is To inform?

200

The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.

What is Mood?

200

This is a comparison without using like or as. 

What is Metaphor?

300
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
300
A problem between a character and society, school, the Law, or some tradition.
What is a Person Against Society?
300

This story is written to convince the audience to change their minds. 

What is to persuade?

300
The lesson a story teaches.
What is Moral?
300

This is a comparison with the use of like and/or as. 

What is a Simile?

400
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
400
A problem between a character and some element of nature - a blizzard, a hurricane, a mountain climb, etc.
What is a Person Against Nature?
400

This story is written to clarify the information on a topic. 

What is to Explain?

400

The attitude or feeling that comes from the Author in a piece of literature.

What is Tone?

400

This is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman. 

What is Personification?

500
The action that makes up the story, following a plan called the plot line.
What is the Plot?
500
A problem or struggle that appears to be well beyond a character's control.
What is a Person Against Fate (God)?
500

This story is written for the enjoyment of the audience. 

What is to entertain?

500

The central topic that the story is about.

What is Main Idea?

500

This is a form of of figurative language which words which are used to describe a sound actually resemble the sound they are referring to.

What is Onomatopoeia?