Story Elements
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
The turning point or highest point of tension in a story.
What is the climax?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
What is personification?
The punctuation marks used to enclose direct speech.
What are quotation marks?
Point of view that uses pronouns like "I," "me," and "we."
What is first-person?
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
Events that lead to the resolution; the winding down of the story.
What is falling action?
A direct comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
In dialogue, this punctuation mark goes inside the quotation marks when a character asks something.
What is a question mark?
A narrator who is not a character in the story and refers to characters as he, she, or they.
What is third-person point of view?
The message or lesson about life that the author wants to convey.
What is theme?
The beginning of the story where characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
An extreme exaggeration used for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
In dialogue, this punctuation mark is used when a character is shouting or showing strong emotion.
What is an exclamation point?
The narrator’s personality, attitude, and style of telling the story is called this.
What is voice?
The perspective from which a story is told (1st, 3rd limited, etc.).
What is Point of View (POV)?
The final outcome of the story where the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
Repeating the same beginning sound in nearby words.
What is alliteration?
Look at this sentence:
"We should leave now," Jake said quietly.
The words Jake said are called this.
What is Dialogue/Dialogue Tag?
If a narrator can describe the thoughts of the characters; is an all-knowing narrator.
What is third-person omniscient?
Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.
What is sensory details/imagery?
A scene that interrupts the chronological order of a story to show an event from the past.
What is a flashback?
A hint or clue about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This punctuation mark can be used to connect two closely related complete sentences without using a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
When the narrator cannot be fully trusted, readers may question whether the events are being told accurately.
What is an unreliable narrator?