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Literary Elements Point of View Literary Potpourri Literary Terms Genre
$100 An account of a person’s life written by another person
What is Biography?
$200 Writing that portrays events that actually occurred or characters that actually existed
What is Nonfiction Writing?
$300 A story meant to teach a useful lesson that often has animals that speak and act like humans
What is A Fable?
$400 Stories that violate natural laws, such as time, space and/or being
What is Science Fiction?
$500 A form of prose fiction, shorter than a novel, and normally dealing with fewer characters and less action
What is A Short Story?
$100 The time and place in which the events of a story occur
What is? Setting?
$200 Life lesson, moral, or message about life or human nature
What is? Theme
$300 People, animals or imaginary creatures in a literary work
What is Characters?
$400 Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces
What is Conflict?
$500 The point in a story in which the conflict or problem is solved
What is Resolution?
$100 A figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to animals, plants, objects, and ideas
What is Personification?
$200 The use of concrete objects to represent an emotion, belief or any other type of abstract principle.
What is Symbolism?
$300 A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two different things.
What is a Simile?
$400 A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, often in an unusual way
What is a Metaphore?
$500 The feeling created in a reader’s mind by a literary work
What is Mood?
$100 The reader knows the thoughts and feelings of everyone in the story
What is Third Person Omniscient Point of View?
$200 The story is told by the narrator using the pronoun “I”
What is First Person Point of View?
$300 The reader knows the thoughts and feelings of one of the characters in the story
What is Third Person Limited Point of View?
$400 A story is told from the perspective of “you”
What is Second Person Point of View?
$500 A “fly on the wall” point of view
What is Third Person Objective Point of View?
$100 Repetition of an initial consonant sound
What is Alliteration?
$200 Hinting or indicating in some way something that will happen later in the text.
What is Foreshadowing?
$300 Figurative language in which exaggeration is used for heightened or comic effect.
What is Hyperbole?
$400 A phrase that means something different than the literal meaning of the phrase
What is an Idiom?
$500 Refers to the pronounciation of a word that imitates the sound associated with its object or action
What is Onomatopoeia?
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Activating prior knowledge before, during, or after reading using text-to- self, text-to-text or text- to-world associations
What is a Connection?