Literary Element Quiz - 1st Six Weeks

an idea or conclusion that's drawn from evidence and reasoning

• Inference
• Hypothesis
• Theory
• Law

The place where a story happens

• Plot
• Setting
• Character
• Theme

Has a beginning, middle, and end and is constructed chronologically

• non linear plot

• A poem
• linear plot

• A limerick

Dictionary definition of a word

• annotation

• connotation

• definition

• denotation

Emotional meaning of a word

• connotation

• denotation

• simile

• metaphor

storytelling technique in which a narrative is told out of chronological

order.

• linear plot development

• Foreshadowing
• non linear plot development

• Onomatopoeia

words used in speaking or writing

• Vocabulary
• Diction

• Punctuation
• Grammar

the arrangement of words in a sentence

• Syntax
• Semantics
• diction

• Phonology

the emotion the author strives to evoke in the reader.

• diction

• theme

• mood

• Pathos

the use of words or images to symbolize specific concepts, people, objects, or events.

• Metaphor
• Symbolism
• Hyperbole
• Personification