Literary Elements

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The stars will cry.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is an Onomatopoeia?

• A literary device in which a word imitates the sound it names

• A comparison using like or as.

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of nearby words.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

The problem in a story is the...

• theme

• resolution

• climax

• conflict

What is the SETTING of a story?

• the main events

• the person or animal the story is mostly about

• the time and location of the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

What is the THEME of a story?

• the main events

• the life lesson in the story

• the problem

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.5

the most exciting moment of the story; the turning point

• Exposition

• Conflict

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

When is the conflict solved in a story?

• Falling Action
• Resolution
• Anti-conflict
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

When in the story is the greatest point of interest or suspense?

• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

Sue describes the events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the book she just read. This means that Sue is describing the _________.

• character

• conflict

• plot

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5