Story Elements
The writer's attitude toward the subject of a story.
What is tone?
Referring to another book, person, place, or event.
What is allusion?
When the audience knows something the character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
What is figurative language?
A repeated subject, theme or idea.
What is a motif?
The time and place of a story.
What is a setting?
The classroom was a zoo.
What is a metaphor?
When something happens differently than expected.
What is situational irony?
Consists of words that appeal to your five senses.
What is imagery?
A feeling that writers create for readers.
What is mood?
Hints that suggest future events in a story.
What is a flashback?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
Words or actions are clear to the audience but not to the characters or actors.
Comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A repetition of vowel sounds within rhyming words.
What is assonance?
Hints that suggest future events in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
She was so hungry she could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
What is verbal irony?
A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
A figure of speech that references people, places, events, or literary works.
What is allusion?
A message about life or human nature.
What is theme?
The wind whispered through the trees.
What is personification?
In a movie, the audience knows the villain is hiding upstairs, but the character doesn't.
What is dramatic irony?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
Giving an object, animal, or idea human characteristics.
What is personification?