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Story Elements
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Literary Devices
Miscellaneous
100
This is a synonym for form or type when referring to literature.
What is genre.
100
This is a person or animal in a story or poem.
What is a character?
100
This is the vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
100
This is a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
100
This is the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. Examples are pop and boom.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This is the account of a person's life written by another person.
What is biography?
200
This is the time and place of a story or play.
What is the setting?
200
This is the problem which triggers the action. It may be internal or external.
What is conflict?
200
This is conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
What is dialogue?
200
This is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
This is a type of prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places.
What is nonfiction?
300
This is the main character or hero in a story.
What is the protagonist?
300
This is the high point or turning point in a work.
What is the climax?
300
This is using language which appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
300
This is a type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
What is personification?
400
This is the account of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
400
This is the character or force that blocks the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
400
This is the feeling created by a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
400
This is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
This is a phrase or expression that does not mean what it literally says. An example would be, "I have butterflies in my stomach."
What is an idiom?
500
This is a narrative in which the situation and characters are invented by the writer.
What is fiction?
500
This is the reason for writing. It may be to persuade, to inform, or entertain.
What is writer's purpose?
500
This is the attitude of the author toward his audience and characters.
What is tone?
500
This is the use of any object, person, place, or experience that means more than what it is. It stands for or represents something else.
What is symbolism?
500
This is a figure of speech that makes a comparison using like or as.
What is simile?