| Lit Term Examples | ||
| #1 | "The trees swayed in the wind like a boat at sea." | simile |
| #2 | "He's a tough cookie, but I'll get through to him eventually." | idiom |
| #3 | "She was Cinderella as she walked onto the dance floor at prom." | allusion |
| #4 | "The ant pranced across the land like a king." | assonance |
| #5 | "Oh, weather, why must you be so evil on game day?!" | apostrophe |
| Lit Term Definitions | ||
| #1 | reader AND characters are surprised by an event in a story | situational irony |
| #2 | a character that is not-well developed and not changing (two answers) | flat and static |
| #3 | the emotional meaning of a word | connotation |
| #4 | to downplay or give less importance to something | understatement |
| #5 | a statement that seems to contradict itself but actually makes sense in context | paradox |
| Story Elements - Exposition | ||
| #1 | the feelings the reader has while reading a story | mood |
| #2 | a narrator who is not a character in the story but knows all of the thoughts and feelings of characters | third person omniscient |
| #3 | the character in opposition to the main character | antagonist |
| #4 | three things told to us in the exposition | background info, character descriptions, and setting |
| #5 | a character that doesn't have a large role in the story | minor character |
| Story Elements - Conflict and More | ||
| #1 | the most intense part of the main conflict | climax |
| #2 | the type of conflict when the main character is fighting against the ways of his government or group of people | man vs. society |
| #3 | the type of conflict when the main character is struggling with his own self-doubt or guilt | man vs. self |
| #4 | the moment the main conflict is solved | resolution |
| #5 | all of the events building to the most intense part of the story | rising action |
| Miscellaneous | ||
| #1 | the first plot point is | exposition |
| #2 | the fourth plot point is | falling action |
| #3 | even though he or she is the main character, he or she can be a bad person--they are the.... | protagonist |
| #4 | tone and mood words must be stated using this grammatical part of speech | adjective |
| #5 | this type of narrator is a character in the story | first person |
| Final Question | |
| List as many aspects of setting as you can think of! | weather, time period, major events, building, city, state, country, time of day |