Literary Elements Review

Laura wants to watch her favorite TV show tonight, but knows she has a huge Social Studies test tomorrow.

• Internal Conflict
• External Conflict

Natalie is the best kicker on her college football team, but is not allowed to play professionally because she is a girl.

• Internal Conflict
• External Conflict

Donovan is swimming in the ocean when he is caught in a current and pulled out to sea. He has to remain calm so that he can remember to swim parallel to the shore until he is out of the current.

• Internal
• External

Katie is very nervous about going to middle school and wishes she could stay in elementary school for another year or two.

• Internal
• External

What is Imagery?

• the use of language appealing to one or more of the five senses
• a joke
• It's nothing, you just made it up
• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

What piece of figurative language is the following representing?

• proverb
• idiom
• symbolism
• oxymoron

"After he ate the chocolate chip cookies, guilt poked and chewed at Anthony."
What is being personified?

• The chocolate chips
• The cookie
• Anthony
• Guilt

the author's attitude toward the story, topic, characters, etc.

• mood
• tone
• theme
• setting

What do we call the central message or main idea of a story?

• Topic
• Theme
• Concept
• Conflict

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human qualities to something that is not human
• an exaggerated statement
• a word that resembles the sound it represents