Literary Elements High School

The struggle or main problem that propels the story forward is called what? 

• Plot
• Action
• Conflict
• Theme

What is the “when” and “where” of any story? 

• Plot
• Setting
• Conflict
• Action

The atmosphere of feeling that a writer creates for a reader, or how the reader feels... 

• Tone
• Mood
• Emotional Landscape
• Expressive

A contradiction between the actual outcome and the expected outcome...
Also, to mean the opposite of what you say refers to what?

• Idiom
• Irony
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron

A simple comparison using "like" or "as"... 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Symbolism
• Analogy

A comparison that describes something by referring to something else WITHOUT using “like” or “as”
(to express a non-literal likeness between two things)… 

• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Symbolism

What device describes sound effects such as “Bang”, “Boom”, or “Clang”?

• Alliteration
• Rhyme
• Repetition
• Onomatopoeia

What term refers to exaggeration for effect?

• Irony
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Anthropomorphism

What is the turning point or decisive moment in a story? 

• climax
• minor event
• major event
• plot

Which of these might be an example of a story's theme

• staying true to yourself is important
• your best friend
• two parents get a divorce
• a boy finds out he has superpowers