Elements of Fiction - Review

What are the three external conflicts?

This is the section of the story where characters are being introduced, the setting is described, and background information is being provided.

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Climax

• Resolution/denouement

Describe an example of "character vs self" conflict.

Draw the linear plot pyramid, and label it as follows: Climax - 1, Rising Action - 3, Exposition - 5, Falling Action - 2, Resolution - 4.

"He was a confident young man, and he knew exactly what he wanted in life."

This is an example of what?

• Direct characterizaition

• Indirect characterization.

• Simile

• Metaphor

Personification does the following:

• Makes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• Makes a comparison, but doesn't use 'like' or 'as'

• Gives human characteristics to an inanimate object

• Repeats a consonant sound at the beginning of a word, or words

"Her hair was jet black, as black as the sky on a starless night"

This is an example of what kind of figurative language?

"The sky was a blank canvas ready for the morning to paint another masterpiece"

This is an example of what kind of figurative language?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration