Literary Elements

The ___________ is the main idea or message of a poem, story, or novel.

The _________ is something that represents something else

The _________ is the growing anticipation the reader feels while awaiting the climax.

The ________ is a figure of speech using like or as.

The _______ is when the narrator is a person in the story

The _________ is the central character in a literary work.

The ________ is when the narrator reveals the thoughts of only one character.

The _____ is when the author gives human characteristics to animals, objects, or forces of nature.

The ________ is when a figure of speech compares two or more things

The _____ is the all knowing of the narrator of a story.

The ___ is when the narrator hints at events that will happen later in the story.

The ___ is a literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation or event is inserted into the story.

The _____ is a conversation between two or more characters.

The ____ is a struggle with an outside force.

The ____ is a struggle within the mind of a character

The _____ is the point of greatest emotional intensity

The _____ is when the author makes direct statements about a character's traits

The ____ is when a character only has only has one characteristic

The ____ is when the author uses actions, words, or other character's words to describe a character.

The ______ is a character that changes through the course of a story.

The ____ shows varied and contradictory traits

The _____ is a character that does not change through the course of a story

The ______ is the mood or emotional quality of work

The _____ is a person or force in society or nature that opposes the protangonist

The ____ is the introduction of characters and initial conflicts

The ____ is the complications, twists, and building intensity.

The ____ is the events that follow the climax

The _____ is the time and place of the story