Walk Two Moons Literary Elements

"Rush, rush, rush whispered the wind"

A work which tells multiple stories, with one being embedded within another, is known as what?

"My mothers parents...are as unlike my grandparents Hiddle as a donkey is unlike a pickle."

The feeling a reader gets as they take in a work of literature. 

When audiences thinks one thing will happen, but something different happens (the unexpected)

A conversation between multiple characters that can be heard by all

When a character is alone and shares his/her thoughts 

On Mrs. Cadaver:  "She scares me half to death!” 

"I could practically see the birds of sadness pecking at his head”

When the audience knows something that characters in a work do not know

"The longer I stared up at the leaves...it seemed that it was the tree itself that was singing"

A statement about the human condition which can be taken from literature is known as what?

Literary term for when a character says something but means something else (a hidden meaning)

When a character whispers or makes a comment to another character that is not heard by others

"Above was thehigh blue sky and below were the pink and purple and black rocks"

A story based on an important portion of an author's life and which often contains falsehoods

The term for the feeling of anticipation and not knowing what will come next in a work

In literature, where the audience learns what happens to the characters and their conflicts

a brief reference to another work, person, or historical event in literature (the Bible, myths)

The __________ is the point of highest interest and audience engagement with a story.