Literary Elements & Techniques

What word below defines descriptive words that appeal to the senses?

• Dialogue

• Alliteration

• Dialect

• Imagery

Characterization

• A contradiction or dilema.

• The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.

• Sounds written into words.

• Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast.

The teacher planted the seeds of wisdom.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

The overall feeling, atmosphere, or emotions that the writing evokes within the reader

• focus

• literary elemenets

• mood

• resolution

Plot refers to:

• Characters (animals and people)

• Ending of a story

• Pattern of events in a story

• Theme of a story

Which of these is an example of a SIMILE?

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What is the technique called when an author develops the characters in a story?

• characterization

• setting

• plot

• theme

The technique where an author uses one thing to represent something else

• Narrator

• Characterization

• Imagery

• Symbolism

Description of the time, place, weather, and/or mood is called ...

• Adjective

• Personification

• Setting

• Simile

Metaphor

• Comparison using like or as

• Overused saying or idea.

• Comparison not using like or as.

• The repetition of the initial consonant sounds.