Literary Elements (especially in FREAK THE MIGHTY)

Some LITERARY ELEMENTS are characters, setting, conflict, plot, and point of view.

IDIOMS: An example of an idiom is:

Imagery = particular words in literary text that create visual pictures in our minds.

"Dynamic" comes from a Greek word meaning "power or force that stimulates change."

A DYNAMIC CHARACTER is a character that

A character's motivation is the reason for their certain thoughts, feelings, actions or speech.

FREAK THE MIGHTY is told from the first person point of view.

SETTING in a literary work is _____________

The goal a writer has when writing for an audience is called _________________.

A flashback is when an author uses hints or clues to give a reader an idea of what may happen next.

Idioms are expressions that have a different _______ than what the words actually say.

TEMPORAL WORDS refer to time.

Internal conflict is...

POINT OF VIEW is the mood and motivation of the person telling the story.

FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW is told from the viewpoint of the narrator, using ________.

When Max talks about his feet exploding out of his shoes and he trips a lot, that means he is probably ______________

IDIOM: an example of an idiom in FREAK THE MIGHTY is "little pitchers have big ears."

Two examples of literary techniques that make narrative writing more interesting are

A plot has rising action, middle action, falling action and end action.

The book FREAK THE MIGHTY is an example of a narrative.

HYPERBOLE: a hyperbole is

When Max calls himself a Butthead and is hard on himself, the author is showing Max's...

CONFLICT: Without conflict in a story, that story would be very _____________.

CHARACTER TRAIT: Max's character traits are intelligence and gentleness.

Narratives (stories) are generally written to ______________ the audience.

Narrative and narrator are synonyms.