Genres
Elements
Devices
Devices
View Point
100
Written work that is meant to be true or factual.
What is nonfiction?
100
What happens in the story. It is the plan that invovles the main character facing a problem nad the story ends when the problem is resolved.
What is the plot?
100
Example: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child"
What is a "simile?"
100
Example: "She is as dumb as a bag of rocks"
What is a hyperbole?
100
He walked in to the classroom and began working. He raised his hand and asked, " May I go to the bathroom."
What is 3rd person objective?
200
Literature written in lines and stanzas and using vivid images; rhythm, and rhym.
What is poetry?
200
The universal meaning in the story. it is the central idea of a short story, novel, peotry and/or play. It is though of as the message that the entirepassage is communicating to the reader.
What is "Theme ?"
200
wprd phrase that compares/makes a comparison bewtee two unlike things using "like or "as."
What is "simile?"
200
Example:"The trees smile as you walk past"
What is personification?
200
I need a drink of water today.
What is first person
300
Story told in action.
What is drama?
300
People in the story.
What are characters?
300
Definition: A statement is made that one thing "is" another. (In reality it is not)
What is meataphor?
300
Example: "Life is but an empty dream"
What is a metaphor?
300
They all prayed that it would stop raingi and the sun would come out.
What is 3rd person ominscient?
400
literature written to tell a story-not true. (usually for enjoyment/pleasure to read).
What is fiction?
400
How the story is organized and built.
What is the story structure?
400
Example: "Life is but a dream"
What is metaphor?
400
Example: "Life is like a box of chacolates."
What is a "simile?"
400
"You leave the classroom!"
What is second person?
500
Occurs between chracters in a story/actors who are performing.(direct talking)
What is dialogue (conversation)?
500
The brackground for the action of the story that includes time, place, and general surrounding of the characters.
What is setting?
500
Figurative language in which aimals, ideas, inorganic objects are given human chracteristics/traits.
What is personification?
500
Example: "you have been running through my mind all day long."
What is a "hyperbole?"
500
The perspective or outlook from which a writer tells a story. .
What is point of view?