Literary Elements Review

What is point of view?

• the dialogue

• who is telling the story, the perspective from which the story is told

• the ending of a story

A simile is...

• a comparison

• an exaggeration

• a comparison using like or as

A metaphor is...

• a lie

• A comparison of two things without using like or as for rhetorical effect

• a comparison using like or as

What is personification?

• a comparison using like or as

• When a writer gives an advance hint or clue of what is to come later in the story

• giving human characteristics to something nonhuman

What is imagery?

• giving human characteristics to something nonhuman

• When a writer gives an advance hint or clue of what is to come later in the story

• descriptive language to add sensory imagery appeals to human senses

What is a symbol?

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

• It is who is telling the story, the perspective from which the story is told

• The subject or topic in which the written work is about

What is the mood of a story?

• When a writer gives an advance hint or clue of what is to come later in the story.

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

• it is created by means of setting, attitude, and descriptions

What is theme?

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

• The subject or topic in which the written work is about. Written texts can have more than one theme

• giving human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

If a story has internal conflict, then a character has a problem with

• nature

• themselves

• society

Which of these is not an example of external conflict

• man vs man

• man vs technology

• self vs self

• man vs society