LITERARY ELEMENTS
When and where a story takes place
What is setting?
What does weary mean? Mom spent all day working in the garden. She felt weary and just wanted to go to bed.
What is tired/exhausted?
To point out or show
What does it mean to indicate?
Sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
The "sentence" of a poem
What is a line?
The message or moral of a story
What is theme?
What does mundane mean? Daniel found sharpening pencils very mundane. He wished he had a more exciting job.
What is boring/dull?
To develop or add to
What is contribute to?
Where the problem is solved?
What is falling action?
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
What is personification?
When words have the same ending sounds
What is rhyme?
Words spoken by characters in a story
What is dialogue?
What does caked mean? She caked mud inside the flower pot.
What is packed on/layered?
The exact words in a text
What is a quote?
The ending of the story
What is resolution?
Comparing two things without using like or as
What is metaphor?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
What the passage is mostly about
What is main idea/central message?
What does ailments mean? Susie had many ailments including a rash, allergies, and a chronic headache.
What is illness/sickness?
To affect or change
What is impact?
The turning point of the story
What is climax?
An exaggeration made for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
Words, lines or phrases that are repeated to show importance or for effect
What is repetition?
The feeling one gets when reading a story
What is mood?
What does valiant mean? The valiant young woman grabbed the little boy just in time to save him from the speeding car.
What is brave/fearless?
To show or express a thought, feeling, or idea so that it is understood by other people
What is convey?
Where the problem is introduced
What is rising action?
When two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly (Bunch of babbling bufoons)
What is alliteration?
The beat or pattern of a poem
What is rhythm?
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
What does sparse mean? The meadow was full of wildflowers. There were some large plants, but the trees were sparse.
What is few/not many?
To look at the parts (break down) a text to figure out meaning
What is analyze?
Where characters and setting are introduced
What is exposition?
The opposite of what is expected (Awesome! More homework!!!)
What is irony?
The author of a poem
What is a poet?