English 1 Elements of Literature Vocabulary

Characters are

• the people or animals that drive the action of the story

• the time and place in which a story happens

• when an author makes a comparison

• when something stands for something larger than itself

The clues an author gives about a character through the characters' dress, mannerisms, actions, and attitudes are called

• protagonist

• setting

• characterization

• dialogue

The time and place in which a story happens is called what?

• the metaphor

• the setting

• the symbol

• the simile

Spoken words in a story are called what?

• developments

• derailment

• diameter

• dialogue

This type of language is what an author uses to evoke the readers' feelings or senses of smell, taste, or touch.

• sinister language

• indirect language

• figurative language

• direct language

The main idea that runs through a story is the story's what?

• theme

• point

• dialogue

• setting

What is a simile?

• the way an author describes characters

• something that stands for something larger than itself

• When an author makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

• When an author makes a comparison without using the words "like" or "as"

What is personification?

• when an author gives a nonhuman human characteristics

• when an author gives animal characteristics to a human character

• when a character speaks to another character

• when a character gets stuck in the past tense

What kind of narrator sees all?

• fancy narrator

• unreliable narrator

• omniscient narrator

• first person narrator

What is the opposite of an antagonist?

• personification

• protagonist

• people

• symbol