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Literary Element Definitions
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The sequence of events that happen to make a story.
What is plot?
100
The person who tells the story.
Who is the narrator?
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Brooke baked brownies before bedtime.
What is alliteration?
100
When the story is told by a character in the story and uses pronouns I and we.
What is 1st person point of view?
200
The time and place where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
The main character in a story.
who is the protagonist?
200
When something happens that is the opposite of what you would expect.
What is Irony?
200
He ran as fast as lightening to make the touchdown.
What is Hyperbole?
200
An object or idea that is a symbol for something else.
What is symbolism?
300
The events in a story that lead up to the main problem or conflict
What is rising action?
300
Hints to things that may happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Giving humanlike characteristics to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
300
This room is an ice box.
What is metaphor?
300
An exaggeration beyond the truth to something that isn't humanly possible.
What is hyperbole
400
The ending to a story where the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
400
The person in the story who causes conflict for the main character.
Who is the antagonist?
400
words with the same beginning sounds used together.
What is alliteration?
400
The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
What is personification?
400
A comparison of two things that are not necessarily alike.
What is metaphor?
500
This part of the plot chart includes the background, setting and events that happen 1st in a story.
What is the exposition?
500
The intense feeling the reader gets while waiting to see the outcome of an important/exciting event in a story.
What is suspense?
500
When words sound very close to the sounds they are mean to represent.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The tick tock of the large clock kept me awake at night.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The overall message of a story that the writer wants the reader to discover.
What is Theme?