Literary Elements

4. a short piece of writing about a single subject
6. details that appeal to the sense of sight
8. the repetition of consonant sounds
9. the intention of the writer
12. the order in which the events in a story take place
13. the sequence of events in a story
15. the author's choice and arrangement of words and sentences
17. a biographical or autobiographical narrative emphasizing personal experience
18. the central struggle between opposing forces in a story
19. the voice of a poem
20. a form of expression in which the intended meaning of words is the opposite of their literal meaning
21. language that appeals to a reader's five senses
23. a person in a literary work

1. a prose narrative in which situations and characters are invented by the writer
2. a form of poetry that tells a story
3. any object, person, place or experience that means more than what it is
5. a generalization about a group of people in which individual differences are overlooked
7. the time and place in which a story takes place
10. the underlying message or main idea of a story
11. how a story is told
14. the accounts of a person's life written by someone other than that person
16. the story of a person's life written by that person
22. the emotional quality or atmosphere of a story