Elements of Fiction/Characters
The problem of the story.
What is the conflict?
The beginning of the story. Characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
A scene in a narrative that takes the reader back in time to an event that happened before the story began.
What is a flashback?
Exaggerates speech for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
A word that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
The most exiting moment in the plot, when the climax is most intense.
What is the climax?
The use of clues to hint at an event that will occur later in the narrative.
What is foreshadowing?
Describing one thing as if it were another, without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
The way the plot develops.
What is the plot?
Everything that happens after the climax.
What is the falling action?
The reader or audience knows something that a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
Giving human qualities to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
Expresses action or being.
What is a verb?
People, animals, or other creatures that play a role in the story.
What are characters?
Introduces the story's main conflict.
What is the rising action?
A writer or character says something that is the opposite of what that person really means.
What is verbal irony?
Uses like or as to compare two different things.
What is a simile?
A word that describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective
Bonus question: When an author tries to convince the reader of his or her point of view.
What is to persuade?
The end of the story, when the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
Something happens that contradicts what the reader, a character, or the audience expects to happen.
What is situation irony?
Language that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
A word that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?