Elements of Stories Practice

An individual/being whose actions and involvement drives the plot of the story.

The sequence of events in a story.

The repetition of consonant sounds, at the beginning of several words in a row.

An unexplained reference to an event, place, or artistic work outside of the text.

An image or object that represents an abstract idea or the theme of a novel.

When authors invoke the different senses of taste, touch, smell, sight, and sound.

Subtle hints about plot developments to come late in the story

A technique in which the outside world mirrors or echos human emotions.

The narrator is an "observer" who can only describe the exterior working, not the thoughts, feelings etc.

The author tells the reader information about characters directly.

When there is incongruence between what is expected and what occurs

When one says the opposite of what one means.

A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like or as.

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry or prose.

Every story has a perspective from which it is told.

A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as

When I say "Elements of Stories" what am I referring to?

The author shows the character in action and lets readers make their own interpretation.

The matching of a final vowel or consonant sound in two or more words.

What is the most common type of conflict?

The author is telling a personal incident about his or her life or is pretending to be the one involved in the incident.

The author provides an "all knowing" point of view.

The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities.

A combination of words with opposite meanings. Used for effect.

Time, place and circumstances that form the background of the story.

An exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant litearlly.

It is usually the central or universal idea of the underlying meaning about human nature that is developed in the story.

A struggle/challenge or tension of some sort. The action of the story is usually built around this struggle.

When the reader knows key information that one more characters don't know.

The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz or crack.