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5. Literary Elements Story Form Literary Elements Miscellaneous Literary Elements Examples 10 Point 200 Points 300 Points 40 Points 500 Points 100 Point100 Point 200 Points200 Points200 Points 300 Points 400 Points 500 Points 300 Points 400 Points 500 Points Literary Elements Figure of Speech Literary Elements Characters

6. What do you call a character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character or protagonist in some way?

7. What is an Antagonist?

8. Element used when a picture or imitation of a person’s habits, physical appearance or mannerisms are exaggerated in some way.

9. What is a Caricature?

10. Authors use this element when giving animals, nonhuman being, or inanimate objects human characteristics. Ex: “The tree bows before the wind”.

11. What is Personification?

12. An element used when very little information is provided about a character.

13. What is a Flat Character?

14. What element is used when the author directly states a character’s traits or makes direct comments about a character’s nature?

15. What is Direct Characterization?

16. Form of drama that ends with death or defeat to the main character?

17. What is Tragedy?

18. Derived from the Old French word denoer, “to untie”, it is the action that takes place in a story after the climax.

19. What is Denouement?

20. The framework, organization, or design of a story. It is how the story is built to attract and hold the attention of a reader or listener. This contrasts with process, which is how the plot will change or evolve.

21. What is Structure?

22. Prefatory piece of writing, usually composed to introduce a story.

23. What is the Prologue?

24. What is the broad idea in a story or a message or lesson conveyed by a work?

25. What is the Theme?

26. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.

27. What is Hyperbole?

28. A word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison.

29. What is a Metaphor?

30. A word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing.

31. What is Onomatopoeia?

32. A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.

33. What is a Simile ?

34. The repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words.

35. What is Assonance?

36. A reciprocal conversation between two or more persons.

37. What is Dialogue?

38. If all the parts of the plot are integrated or closely connected, a story has this.

39. What is unity?

40. The related experience of the narrator, not that of the author.

41. What is Point of View?

42. Writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, usually used to bring closure to the work.

43. What is the Epilogue?

44. The overall feeling in a story characterized by formal or intimate, solemn or playful, serious, for example.

45. What is Mood/Tone?

46. "A sea of troubles" AND "All the world's a stage." (Shakespeare)

47. What is a Metaphor?

48. I could sleep for a year AND This book weighs a ton.

49. What is Hyperbole?

50. The lead character, Ellen, is a 14-year old girl who sees school as something to do, not something to enjoy. She comes from a well-off uptown New York City family where the mother is a busy interior designer and her father is always away on business but travels more than he cares to travel. Ellen has an older brother, Link, who is very good friends with James. The three of them are very close friends. Ellen has a crush on James and is curious if James and Link are involved in a homosexual relationship. She is torn between her admiration of Link and her admiration of James, and begins a quest to learn more about the culture of the gay community in an effort to understand herself, her brother, and his friend. This builds to a frenzied pace as Link and James prepare to depart the safety of high school and enter the collegiate world while she faces remaining at home without her two buddies. My Heart Beat by Garret Weyr

51. What is Internal/External Conflict?

52. “I had never before seen a dog smile, but that is what he did” NOT He had never before seen a dog smile……. Because Of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

53. What is First Person Point of View?

54. "So are you to my thoughts as food to life." (Shakespeare)

55. What is Simile?

56. Make your wager

57. Literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story.

58. What is Foreshadowing?