Story Elements
The leading character, or one of the major characters in a work of literature.
Who is the Protagonist?
This grabs the attention of the reader.
What is the hook?
What are stanzas?
The camel is the ship of the desert.
What is a metaphor?
a 14 line poem, typically (but not exclusively) concerning the topic of love
What is a sonnet?
This occurs at the beginning of the story and introduces the characters.
What is exposition?
This offers a concise summary of the main point or claim of the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
The beat of the poem.
What is the rhythm?
Don’t be a stick in the mud!
What is an Idiom?
a three-line poetic form originating in Japan.
What is a haiku?
The feeling or atmosphere created by the author in a literary work
What is Mood?
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
What is plagiarism?
the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience in the reader.
What is imagery?
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger and then it hit me.
What is a pun?
poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form.
What is free verse?
This narrator knows the thoughts and feeling of ALL the characters in a story.
Third-Person Omniscient
a viewpoint that opposes your main argument, giving you the chance refute the opposition and show why your position is the right one to have.
What is a counterargument? or rebuttal?
an object that stands for, or represents, an idea, belief, superstition, social or political institution.
What is a symbol?
They ate jumbo shrimp.
What is an oxymoron?
poetry written with a precise meter—almost always iambic pentameter—that does not rhyme.
What is blank verse?
Any story element that appears again and again in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience.
What is an archetype?
This is the correct order or the writing process.
(Revising, Prewriting, Publishing, Editing, Drafting)
What is
Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing?
a line of writing that consists of ten syllables in a specific pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
Chocolate is his Kryptonite.
What is an allusion?
a poem that reflects upon death or loss.
What is an elegy?