Narrative Elements
When and Where the story takes place is called:
Setting
This is a person, place or thing and is a concrete example used to "show" your ideas.
concrete noun or noun
The person who drives the action and faces the main obstacle in a story.
Protagonist
The main conflict in the story is called?
Climax
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words in a poem is called:
Alliteration
The overall structure of the story.
PLOT
This is a part of speech that shows action (not “is,” “was,” or "seems")
Action Verb
The character who opposes the main character.
Antagonist
The part of the Plot where we learn about the setting.
Exposition
Giving human traits to non-human things.
Personification
They way we see and hear a story through a narrator.
Point of View
This detail for "showing" in writing, uses our 5 inputs to understand the world.
Senses or sensory detail.
A battle between a character and a large white whale would be classified as what type of conflict?
Person vs. Nature
The part of the plot when conflict first starts to increase.
Rising Action
A comparison between two different things showing how they are similar in many "implied" ways
The struggle between two opposing forces in a story.
Conflict
Instead of talking in general about your whole day -- to "show" better in your writing you should:
ZOOM IN on one specific detail, focused moment or short period of time.
The two types of conflict that Maria Fernanda faced were: person vs. self and person vs. ?
Person vs. society
The "Y" Axis in the Plot graph is labeled this.
Stress, conflict, problems, or tension.
When an physical object takes on deeper significance and represents non-physical ideas: A rose means love.
Symbolism
The word choice of an author is called:
Diction
One common mistake in weak writing is to is to use these parts of speech to prop up your weak verbs
Adverbs
The character type that is a reflection of another character. Seen as an opposite.
FOIL
The part of the plot when we learn a lesson and there is a conclusion to the story.
The Dénouement
Using exaggeration for emphasis.
Hyperbole