The beginning or introduction of a story is known as this element.
What is the exposition?
100
Narative intended to convey a moral. Animals or inanimate objects with human characteristics often serve as characters.
What is a fable?
100
Comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing.
What is a metaphor?
100
A person or animal in a story, play, or literary work.
What is a character?
100
my room is a junkyard!
What is metaphor
200
The turning point of the story or the "most exciting part of the story" is known as this element.
What is the climax?
200
A stoy that orginates in oral tradition. They can also be known as legends, ghost stories, fairy tales, fables and anecdotes based on historical figures and events.
What is a folktale?
200
An extravagant exaggeration; it is used in literature to emphasis a point.
What is a hyperbole?
200
Conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
200
a figure of speech in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
What is personification?
300
A story about a mythical or supernatural beings or events, or a story coming down from the past, especially one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable.
What is a legend?
300
A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like or "as."
What is a simile?
300
Often introduced as a dream or recollection of one or more characters; used to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story.
What is a flashback?
300
The telling of a story through a speaker.
What is narration?
400
The part of the story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated. This story element leads up to the climax.
What is rising action?
400
The story of a person's life written by himself/herself.
What is an autobiography?
400
An important idea or conclusion drawn from reasoning than directly stated in the text-audiance using their background nowledge and what they have read or seen to make educated quesses about the plot of a story
What is an inference?
400
Struggles that occur between opposing forces.
5 different kinds
person vs. nature
person vs. person
person vs. self
person vs. society person vs. God
What is conflict?
400
language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.
What is figurative language?
500
Any story that is the producr of imagination rather than a documentary of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author.
What is fiction?
500
The major idea ot topic of a literary work. it is not directly stated; the reader (audience) has to think about all of the details and make an inference about the meaning or "moral" of the passage/text.
What is the theme?
500
Used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments-little clues/hints that the author gives about events in the story before they occur.
What is foreshadowing?
500
The author's intent either to inform, teach, entertain,or persuade/convince their audience to do or not do something.