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Elements and Devices
Basic literary elements and devices for middle school.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are all of the parts that make up a piece of literary work? | Literary Elements |
| What are made up people or animals in a literary work? | Characters |
| What is the character that opposes another, usually the protagonist (a.k.a. "the bad guy")? | Antagonist |
| What is the major character in a literary work that is involved in some sort of conflict (a.k.a. "the good guy")? | Protagonist |
| How does an author make a character seem real by depicting the character's personality? | Characterization |
| What is it called when an author directly tells the reader about the character? | Direct Characterization |
| What is it called when an author shows a character's personality through actions, dialogue, etc.? | Indirect Characterization |
| What is the place and time of a story? | Setting |
| What is the most important idea in a story that may also include a short lesson? | Theme |
| What are the sequence of a story's events that follow the pattern of: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution? | Plot |
| What is the problem in a story? | Conflict |
| What is the solution to the problem in a story called? | Resolution |
| What is it called when the problem occurs between the protagonist and another character or nature? | External Conflict |
| What is it called when the protagonist struggles within himself/herself? | Internal Conflict |
| What are the four types of conflict? | Character v. CharacterCharacter v. NatureCharacter v. SelfCharacter v. Society |
| What is the beginning of the story called when basic facts about the setting and characters are made known? | Exposition |
| What are the events that happen before the climax called? | Rising Action |
| What is the peak or turning point of a story? | Climax |
| What is the action called that happens after the climax? | Falling Action |
| What is the atmosphere that is created for the reader by the text? | Mood |
| What is the perspective from which a story is told? | Point of View |
| What is the point of view that uses the words "I" or "we" when telling the story? | First Person |
| What point of view uses the words "he", "she", "they" while telling a story? | Third Person |
| This point of view only knows as much as the main character knows. Uses "he", "she", "they". | Third Person Limited |
| This point of view means "all-knowing" | Third Person Omnicient |
| Tools that authors use to bring the reader into the writing | Literary Devices |
| Set of literary devices that authors use | Figurative Language |
| This compares two unlike things using "like" or "as" | Simile |
| Compares two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as"; says one thing IS another | Metaphor |
| This figure of speech in which non-human things are given human qualities | Personification |
| Extreme exaggeration | Hyperbole |
| When future events in a story are hinted at by the author; used to build suspense | Foreshadowing |
| This literary device interrupts the plot of a story to go back to past event | Flashback |
| Used to express the exact opposite of its literal meaning | Irony |
| When a certain object or image is used to represent another idea | Symbolism |
| This is a form a language spoken by people in certain region or group | Dialect |
| An expression that means something different from what the words might seem to actually say | Idiom |
| The use of words to imitate sounds | Onomatopoeia |
| Writing which appeals to the senses. Descriptive. | Imagery |
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tcollins
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