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Literary Elements
Story Elements
Story Type
Story Concepts
Parts of Speech
100
A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is simile?
100
The time and place of a story, play, or narrative poem.
What is setting?
100
A prose account that is made up rather than true.
What is fiction?
100
A person or animal in a story, a play, or another literary work.
What is character?
100
Names a person, place, thing, or idea, including days and months.
What is a noun?
200
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing.
What is metaphor?
200
The series of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
200
Prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places.
What is nonfiction?
200
Type of literature.
What is genre?
200
Shows action and links the subject to words that describe it.
What is a verb?
300
Language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
300
A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces.
What is conflict?
300
An account of a person's life or of part of it, written or told by another person.
What is biography?
300
The way a writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
300
Replaces a noun or noun phrase.
What is a pronoun?
400
The attitude a writer takes towards his or her subject, characters, and audience.
What is tone?
400
A contrast between expectation reality.
What is irony?
400
A story that has no known author and was originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth.
What is folk tale?
400
A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true.
What is figurative language?
400
Links words or phrases.
What is a conjunction?
500
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science.
What is allusion?
500
The main character in a work of literature.
What is protagonist?
500
A short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject.
What is essay?
500
An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words.
What is idiom?
500
Shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?