Literary Elements

Question 1

The people, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action of a work of literature

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Characters

Question 2

The final outcome of a story

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Resolution

Question 3

A struggle between opposing forces

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Conflict

Question 4

The voice that tells a story

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Narrator

Question 5

The point of greatest interest in a story or play

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Climax

Question 6

The stage of the plot that develops the conflict

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Rising action

Question 7

The series of events in a story or play

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Plot

Question 8

A lesson concerning what is right or just that a writer conveys to the reader

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Moral

Question 9

The way a writer creates and develops characters

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Characterization

Question 10

The main character in a story, play, or novel

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Protagonist

Question 11

A force working against the protagonist in a story

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Antagonist

Question 12

A person, place, object, or routine in a story or play that stands for something beyond itself

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Symbol

Question 13

The choice and use of words and phrases in writing

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Diction

Question 14

A reference to a historical or literary person, place, or event the reader is familiar with

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Allusion

Question 15

An idea about life or human nature that a writer conveys to the reader

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Theme

Question 16

Writing that is not meant to be taken literally

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Figurative language

Question 17

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning

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Connotation

Question 18

An image, plot, character, or descriptive detail that occurs frequently in literature

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Archetype

Question 19

When the narrator is a character in the story

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First-person point of view

Question 20

When the narrator conveys what only one character thinks, feels, and observes

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Third-person limited point of view

Question 21

When a writer provides hints suggesting future events in a story

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Foreshadowing

Question 22

When the narrator sees into the mind of all the characters

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Third-person omniscient point of view

Question 23

The time and place of the action of a story

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Setting

Question 24

The first stage of a typical plot

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Exposition

Question 25

The stage of the plot in which the story begins to draw to a close

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Falling action

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