Elements of Literature
This is the central message or insight about life revealed by a literary work.
What is the theme?
This is a direct statement about a character’s feelings or traits.
What is direct characterization?
This is the main idea or primary message of a text.
What is the central idea?
This word means "to make something less severe."
What is alleviate?
This device involves giving human qualities to non-human objects or animals.
What is personification?
his is the character who opposes the protagonist in a story.
Who is the antagonist?
This literary element involves the use of clues to hint at future events.
What is foreshadowing?
This section of a text provides background or context for understanding the main content.
What is the introduction or background information?
This word describes something that is very important or essential.
What is crucial?
This is a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This term describes the time and place where a story occurs.
What is setting?
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close to each other.
What is alliteration?
This is a graphic that shows data visually, like charts or graphs.
What is a visual aid or graphic?
This word means "to speak or write about something in detail.''
What is elaborate?
This device repeats the initial consonant sounds in words close to each other.
What is alliteration?
This is the perspective from which a story is told, such as "I" or "he."
What is point of view?
his is a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This type of text provides factual information and explains ideas.
What is informational or expository text?
This word describes a person who is honest and morally upright.
What is virtuous?
This device involves the use of clues or hints to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
his literary device involves giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
his is the narrative technique where the story is told by an outside narrator.
What is third-person point of view?
his is the process of determining the truth or validity of information in a text.
What is analysis or critical evaluation?
This is a word meaning "able to be believed; convincing."
What is plausible?
This is a figure of speech that involves an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?