G6 Literary Devices

Plot is ________

• Events that make up a story

• The turning point of story

• setting and characters

• the solution to the problem

Climax is...

• Events that make up a story

• setting and characters

• The turning point of story

• the solution to the problem

The author’s message to the readers.

• Point of View

• Theme

• Character

• Conflict

This is the struggle between two people or things in a short story

• climax

• theme

• conflict

• setting

Interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time.

• Foreshadowing

• Theme

• Style

• Flashback

The use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.

• Irony

• Plot

• Foreshadowing

• Setting

The place and time in which a literary work takes place.

• Setting

• Style

• Theme

• Tone

A central idea, concern, or purpose

• Theme

• Mood

• Tone

• Plot

Match the following terms to the correct definitions.

• The time and place of a story

• Conflict

• The beginning of a story

• Character

• The problem or struggled

• Climax

• A person, animal, or inanimate object

• Setting

• The turning point; most intense moment

• Exposition

Match the following literary terms with their correct definitions.

• Conflict is completely over

• Plot

• Protagonist tries to solve the problem

• Resolution

• Overall message or life lesson

• Theme

• Suspense is decreasing after the climax

• Rising Action

• Sequence of events including conflict

• Falling Action