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The 8 Story Elements
1. Plot: The sequence of events that unfold around a conflict
2. Setting: When and where the story takes place
3. Characters: The people, creatures, or imaginary things in a story.
4. Dialogue: The conversation between one or more characters
5. Suspense: The exciting events in the story that keep the reader wanting to read more.
6. Theme: The moral or lesson the story teaches the reader
7. Voice: The author's unique style of writing.
8. Point of View Narration: The way the story is written in either first person, or third person point of view.
Other Terms...
Poetry Words to KNOW!!
Ballad
A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.
Poetry Forms
Lyric
A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now generally referred to as the words to a song.
Sonnet
English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long. The first stanza is the
Octet with eight lines, the second stanza is the Sestet with six lines.
Each line has five IAMBS. An IAMB is an unstressed SYLLABLE before a stressed SYLLABLE. Thus, Sonnets are writen in IAMBIC PANTAMETER.
Figurative Terms
METAPHOR AND SIMILE
A metaphor is the comparison of two nouns that are not very alike.
Example: “My heart is an open book”
A simile is a comparison of two unlike nouns, but in the sentence one uses like or as.
Example: “My heart is like an open book”, or, “My heart is as open as a book.”
Using simile and metaphor in poetry is fun and creative!
You can make the entire poem about the two nouns.
Example, Emily Dickinson’s Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
***Miss Dickinson is comparing hope with a bird...
An example of simile use in a poem from I’m Nobody by Miss Dickinson again.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Personification is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).
For example: The window winked at me. The verb, wink, is a human action. A window is a non-living object.
Or..."The daffodils danced in the wind"
The verb dance is a human trait that daffodils do not really do.
* HYPERBOLE!
An exaggerated statement that is used to emphasize. EXAMPLE: I am as hungry as a horse!
Cliche': An overused, "worn out" expression: EXAMPLE: "Whatever..."
ANALOGY: a comparison of situations that are unlike in actual events. For EXAMPLE:
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