Literary Elements
What is a character in a story?
What is a person or animal?
What is it called when a word is written in a thicker style to show importance?
What is boldface?
What figurative language uses "like" or "as" to compare two things?
What is simile?
What do we call a group of lines in a poem?
What is a stanza?
What is a written version of a play called?
What is a script?
What is the sequence of events in a story called?
What is plot?
What do you call a title that describes a section of text?
What is heading?
What is an example of a word that imitates a sound, like "buzz"?
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the term for the pause or break at the end of a line in a poem?
What is line break?
What do we call the spoken lines in a play?
What is dialogue?
What term describes where and when a story takes place?
What is a setting?
What type of visual helps to explain data in a story?
What is graph?
What do we call an exaggerated statement that isn't meant to be taken literally?
What is hyperbole?
What do we call words that create images in our mind?
What is imagery?
What is a list of characters in a play called?
What is cast of characters?
What does the plot consist of?
What is conflict and resolution?
What is the purpose of a caption?
What figurative language gives human traits to animals or objects?
What is personificaton?
What term describes the pattern of sounds in a poem?
What is rhythm?
What do we call the instructions for the actors on how to perform?
What is stage directions?
What is a genre?
What is a category of writing?
What do we call boxed information that adds to the main text?
What is sidebar?
What is an expression that means something different from its literal meaning called?
What is idiom?
What do we call it when the same sound is repeated at the beginning of nearby words?
What is repetition?
What is the term for a division within a play?
What is an act?