Elements of Literature: Part I

The author or narrator's distinctive style or manner of expression that reveals much about his or her personality:

Contrast to what is expected and what actually is:

Nervous Excitement:

Exaggerated statement used to heighten the effect:

Highest point of action in a story (the turning point): 

Where and when a story takes place. Includes: time, place, & environment.

Concluding part added to the story:

A character who does NOT change throughout the course of the story:

The author's underlying meaning or message: 

The cause of the problem:

The author's attitude toward a subject:

A concentrated form of writing which shows imagination, emotion, and thought: 

Conflict is coped with in the story: 

The author's way of explaining a character:

A first person recollection of an experience or an event:

The author goes back to an earlier time in the story to help the reader understand something better.

A figure of SPEECH in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant: 

Introduction to a story:

Giving human qualities to non-human things:

A form of writing (ex: comedy, horror, sci-fi, history): 

Hinting events that will occur later in the story: 

A great difference between the purpose of an action and its results:

An expression whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of the words:

Concrete details that appeal to the senses:

A comparison between two things that does NOT use like or as. (Example: The plane is a bird flying through the clouds.)

A comparison between two things that uses like or as:

A character who CHANGES as a result of the story's elements:

Dictionary definition:

The focus, position, or outlook taken by the narrator, author, or character in a piece of writing:

Action of the story.

The division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains (the paragraph of poetry):