May be people or animals that take part in a story's action.

This drives a character to act as they do.

This occurs when the author describes a character.

When the author reveals a character through speech and action is

The central problem or struggle is called the ...

When a character struggles with an outside force is calle

This takes place within a character's mind...

The sequence of events in a story.

Introduces the situation in story, such as the characters, setting, and conflict.

Introduces the conflict

It is the turning point of a story...

When the conflict eases in a story is called the ...

The conclusion of the story is ...

The time and place of a story is...

The atmosphere of a story is called the...

The perspective from which a story is told.

Narrator uses "I."

Narrator uses you and pronoun

Narrator is not a character, but a voice outside the story.

Narrator knows about all of the characters' feelings and thoughts.

Knows about one character's thoughts and feelings.

Narrator is a neutral observer. Expresses no character's feelings.

It is the central message, moral, or insight about life.

Recurs in different cultures and time periods.

Conversation between two or more characters.

A scene from the past is called...

Gives clues to the future...

A person, place, or an object that represents something else is called a ...

When a theme is expressed directly it is ...

These themes are suggested by the author...

Sharing of stories by word of mouth

Insight about life that a story conveys is...

Author's purpose for writing is...

Tales that relate the actions of gods, goddesses and explain natural phenomenon

Traditional stories based on real-life events

Focuses on a central hero who performs impossible feats

May deal with real people or magical characters.

Brief poems that often feature animal characters who act and speak like humans.

Long narrative poems important to the history of a nation. A larger than life hero who goes on a dangerous journey or quest.

larger than life figures who overcome obstacles.

Clever character who can fool others but often gets into trouble.

A type of figurative language in which nonhuman subjects are given human qualities.

figurative language that uses exaggeration.

Language spoken by people in a particular region or group.

Directly stated at the end of the story as a moral.

Not directly stated, must use clues in the details of characters, setting, and plot to determine.

An element that occurs regularly in literature.

Characters who seem to have only one trait.

Which 5 elements in folk literature contribute to story development and theme in poetry?

Uses the rhythms and sounds of words as well as their meanings to set the imagination in motion.

Poetry is divided into ...

Blank lines are

Poems may repeat lines, either identically or with ...

A line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem is a ...

Most poems have this which is created by the stressed and unstressed syllables.

A poet may arrange words and break lines at certain points to sustain a pattern of ...

Meter is measured in ...

The repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words...

Rhymes follow a particular pattern called a ...

The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginnings of words.

The use of any element of language - a sound, word, or phrase more than once.

The use of words that imitate sounds.

The literal, dictionary definition of a word.

The ideas and feelings that the word brings to mind.

Poets use this to create vivid word pictures or descriptions that appeal to the 5 senses.

Poets use this which is not meant to be taken literally.

Uses the word like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things.

Describes one thing as if it were something else.

Gives human qualities to a nonhuman subject.

This type of poetry tells a story in verse.

This type of poetry is a 3 line Japanese form that describes something in nature.

This type of poetry is defined by its lack of structure.

This type of poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.

Songlike poems that tell stories.

Poems shaped to look like their subjects.

What are the 6 elements of a poem used to shape its meaning?