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Elemental
Literature is Lit
Figuratively Speaking
100

The occupation of the narrator in "Just Lather, That's All"

Barber

100

The most exciting part of a story. 

The climax
100

Conversations or words that characters say. 

Dialogue

100
I could hear the click-clack of her shoes as she walked up the stairs.

Onomatopoeia

200

The accident in which Mr. Mallard has supposedly died in "The Story of an Hour."

Railroad accident

200

All six types of conflict. 

Person vs. Person, Person vs. Self, Person vs. Society, Person vs. Nature, Person vs. Supernatural, Person vs. Technology

200

A traffic cop gets a ticket.

Situational Irony

200

She parked the tiny car and left it crouching behind the hill. 

Personification

300

The name of the violent man who receives a shave in "Just Lather, That's All."

Captain Torres

300

The two types of third-person narration

Limited and omniscient 

300

A hint or clue about what is to come later on in a story. 

Foreshadowing

300

High school is a jungle. 

Metaphor

400

The two characters that break the news to Mrs. Mallard in "The Story of an Hour."

Her sister Josephine and her husband's friend Richards

400

A character who does not grow or change in a story.

Static character

400

The detectives in "Lamb to the Slaughter" eat the murder weapon. 

Dramatic Irony

400
"Great," she said as her phone fell to the floor. 

Verbal Irony

500

The items that Mary Maloney buys when she goes to the grocery store in "Lamb to the Slaughter."

Potatoes, peas, and cheesecake

500

The event that sets the story in motion. 

Inciting incident
500

The author's attitude toward the subject. 

Tone

500

It was a hideously beautiful painting.

Oxymoron