STAAR Literary Elements

The narrator is a character in the story

Develops a comparison throughout an entire poem

The moral of the story; lesson learned

The part of the story when the conflict begins to resolve

Gives human qualities to something nonhuman

The repeated use a sound, word, or phrase

The use of words that imitate sounds

Reason for a character's actions

Is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

Shows the relationship among events

Takes place in the mind of a character

Introduces the main problem

Tales that explain the actions of gods, goddesses, and heroes

Writing that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses

Writing that tells about characters & events from the author's imagination

The central point the author conveys

The most intense; turning point of a story

Breaking up a poem into many individual parts

A main idea must be supported by

Introduces the setting, the characters, and situation

When a story is interrupted to tell something that happened before the story begin

Is the writer's attitude toward his audience & subject

The way the story makes the reader feel

Writing that is not meant to be taken literally.

Writing that discusses real people, events, places, and ideas

The narrator is not in the story & knows the thoughts & feelings of all the characters

Is the most musical of literary forms

The character or voice who tells the poem

Compares two unlike things

Expression that cannot be understood literaly

Larger than-than-life figures whose virtues and deeds are often celebrated in stories

The reason the author writes 

A group of lines in a poem are

Shows the ways in whiich two subjects are similar & different

Is the sequence of events that make up a story

Is the repetition of sounds at the end of words

A character struggles with an outside force or another character

The narrator is not a character in the story & knows the thoughts & feelings of 1 character

Uses like or as to compare two unlike things

The story's outcome

Is the use of clues that hint what will happen later in the story

A struggle between opposing foces

Exaggeration or overstatement

Presents details in time order