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Literary elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imagery | Descriptive writing used to create a mental picture that appeals to the readers five senses. |
| Central idea | Main, most important information that the author wants you to learn from a piece of text. |
| Internal conflict | Character struggles to make a decision, take an action, or overcome a feeling. |
| External conflict | Character struggles against an outside force such as another character, nature,or society. |
| Dialogue | Verbal discussion between characters: a conversation between two or more characters. |
| Mood | Authors feelings or attitude towards a subject in a piece of text. |
| Tone | Feeling created in the reader by a piece of text. |
| Adjective | Describes a noun. |
| Noun | Person, place, thing, or idea |
| Pronoun | replaces a noun: I, you, it, he, she. |
| Plot | Sequence of events in a story. |
| Flashback | A memory that gives background information to help the reader to understand the present. |
| Foreshadowing | Author uses clues to hint at something that might happen in the future. |
| Protagonist | Most affected by the antagonist in a story; actions drive the majority of the story. |
| Antagonist | An obstacle to the protagonist in a story; causes an issue for the protagonist. |
| Symbolism | something that stands for or represents a person, place, word, idea, or object |
| Observation | something that is seen, "The sky is blue." |
| Prediction | An educated guess of something that might happen in the future; supported by observations and inferences. |
| Authors purpose | The reason an author writes- persuade, inform, entertain. |
| Setting | Time and place of a story. |
| Characterization | How an author reveals the personality traits of a character; describes a character. |
| Theme | A message or life lesson that an author wants you to learn from a piece of text. |
| Simile | Compares two unlike things using like or as. |
| Metaphor | Compares two unlike things without using like or as. |
| Inference | Using what you know and evidence from the text to figure out a piece of text. |
| Narrative | Another word for "story" |
| Summary | A shortened collection of important facts and details that tell what happened in a story. |
| Point of view | The narrator's perspective in a piece of text. |
| 1st Person point of view | The story is told by a character in a piece of text. |
| 3rd person limited point of view | The story is told by a narrator and tells thoughts/feelings of one character- "he," she," they" |
| 3rd person omniscient | story is told by a narrator and tells thoughts/feelings of all characters- "he", "she", "they" |
| Personification | giving a noun-human object the characteristics of a human. |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopoeia | Use of words to imitate sounds> "POW", "BOOM" |
| Alliteration | Repetition of same constant sound at the beginning of several words in a row. |
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