Building a Story
This term refers to the time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or movie takes place
What is setting?
A type of figurative language that compares two things by using the words like or as (Example: He ran like the wind.)
What is a simile?
A group of lines of verse (usually not less than four), arranged according to a definite scheme; normally forms a division of a song or poem.
What is a stanza?
The conversation between characters in a drama or narrative. It occurs in most works of literature.
What is dialogue?
A type of language that does not mean eactly what it says, but instead forces the reader to make an imaginitive leap in order to comprehend an author's point. The opposite of literal language, in which words mean exactly what they say.
What is figurative language?
The main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem
Who is the protagonist?
Figurative language in which human characteristics are given to animals, ideas, or objects.
What is personification?
A verse in which the meter and line length vary, and in which there is no discernible pattern in the use of rhyme
What is free verse?
The frame of reference from which the events of a story are conveyed to the reader; it is the "vantage point" from which the narrative is written
What is point of view?
A collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing.
What is a narrative?
The plan of events or main story in a narrative or drama
What is plot?
A narrative that serves as an extended metaphor. They are written in the form of fable, parables, poems, stories, and almost any other style or genre. Their main purpose is to tell a story that has characters, a setting, as well as other types of symbols that have both literal and figurative meanings.
What is an allegory?
A pattern of sound that includes the repetition of consonant sounds. The repetition can be located at the beginning of successive words or inside the words. Poets often use it to represent audibly the action that is taking place.
What is alliteration?
It characterizes the tone, attitudes, or personality of the speaker as it reveals itself directly or indirectly in the narrative.
What is voice?
A statement that seems impossible or contradictory but actually reveals a truth. This device includes phrases like “less is more” or “the only constant is change.”
What is a paradox?
The turning point in a plot or dramatic action; a moment of great or culminating intensity in a narrative or drama, especially at the conclusion of a crisis
What is the climax?
A type of figurative language that compares two things by saying one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
Words or phrases conveying sensory images that help a reader to see a poem or story in his/her imagination
What is imagery?
One who tells a story. The speaker or the "voice" of an oral or written work.
Who is the narrator?
An implicit or recurrent idea; a motif; a central idea that permeates a poem, short story, or novel.
What is theme?
The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; the events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place
What is the denouement?
A word or object that stands for another word or object. Something (such as a person, place, object, action, color, or event) that has two levels of meaning, one literal and one signifying something in a figurative way.
What is a symbol?
Order of the parts of a story or poem, and the relationship of the parts to each other and to the entire work. Examples include such things as time order, comparison, cause/effect, spatial order, and repetition.
What is structure?
An inducement or incentive to action; in a story, the psychological or social factors that drive character action.
What is motivation?
A phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal words. This device includes expressions such as “break the ice” and “piece of cake,” which don’t mean exactly what they say.
What is an idiom?