Essential Literary Devices

The time and location in which a story takes place:

• Plot

• Setting

• Conflict

• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

There are ___________ types of conflict.

• 1, external

• 2, internal and external

• 3, internal, external, nocturnal

• 4, internal, external, nocturnal, eternal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The central, main character of a story is called the ____________.

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Antagonizer

• Instigator

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The opposition of forces essential to the plot is called__________.

• Setting

• Conflict

• Character

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is a person or animal which takes part in the action of a story called?

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the sequence of events involving characters and a central conflict called?

• Setting

• Character

• Plot

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The character or force that opposes the main character is called the __________.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Dynamic Character

• Static Character

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Hints that are given that warn you that something may happen later in the story is called __________

• Foreshadowing

• Simile

• Flashback

• External

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What term means category or kind of story?

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

• Genre

• Literature

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When a character recalls an important event from the past is called

• Foreshadowing

• Exposition

• Flashback

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5