Elements of Literature

people in the story

• Exposition

• Setting

• Characters

• Protagonist

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• Denotation

• Connotation

• Thesaurus

• Webster

author hints that something is going to happen later in the story

• Forshadowing

• Hint

• Flashback

• Giveaway

memories from the past

• Cliffhanger

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Dream

a problem in which the protagonist battles with environmental forces

• Man vs Man

• Challenge

• Conflict

• Man vs Nature

the time, place, atmosphere of a story

• Space

• Setting

• Environment

• Exposition

object that represents something more

• Example

• Imagery

• Symbol

• Treasure

actions, thoughts, descriptions, speech, appearance of characters

• Characterization

• Characters

• Antagonist

• Imagery

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narrator that tells his own story using “I”, “my”, “me”

• Third Person

• First Person

• Second Person

• Omniscient

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the moment the most intense part of the story/problem is faced

• Exposition

• Climax

• Resolution

• Rising Action