Story Elements
The most intense, exciting, or pivotal point in a story
What is the climax?
Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
In the final moments of "The Interlopers," this animal finds Georg and Ulrich in the woods.
What is a wolf?
When the narrator is talking about themself using pronouns like "I," "me," and "we."
What is first person?
Giving human traits to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
What is personification?
These two things are behind the doors in the semi-barbaric king's arena.
What are a lady and a tiger?
The main character of a story
What is a protagonist?
An exaggeration for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole?
In "By the Waters of Babylon," the City of the Gods is actually the ruins of this modern-day metropolis
What is New York City?
Something that stands for or represents something else in a story.
What is a symbol?
Repetition of the same letter of sound at the beginning of closely connected words
What is alliteration?
In "On the Rainy River," Tim stays at a fishing resort by this name
What is Tip Top Lodge?
The time and place of a story
What is the setting?
Words that imitate natural sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
The narrator of "The Seventh Man" is terrified by this expression on K's face while he's in the wave
What is smiling?