Literary Elements and Techniques

Front

What is the author's attitude towards the writing called?

Back

Tone

Front

Identify the figurative language technique used in the phrase 'It’s raining cats and dogs.'

Back

Idiom

Front

What is the term for language that appeals to the reader’s five senses?

Back

Imagery

Front

What do we call the use of objects or ideas to represent something else?

Back

Symbolism

Front

What is the series of events that build and grow over the course of a story?

Back

Plot

Front

What is the term for the central message or insight revealed through a story?

Back

Theme

Front

What literary element involves the time and place in which a story occurs?

Back

Setting

Front

What is the term for a struggle between opposing forces in a story?

Back

Conflict

Front

What do we call a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

Back

Simile

Front

What is the term for giving human characteristics to non-human things?

Back

Personification