Narrative Elements & Figurative Language

Short, oral stories that involve larger than life heros

• Folk Tale

• Legend

• Short story

• Tall Tale

A struggle in the story (internal/external)

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Conflict

• Exposition

The one against the main character.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Person v Person

• Narrator

The type of story (fiction/nonfiction)

• Non-Ficiton

• Fiction

• Type

• Genre

Comparing 2 things NOT using like or as.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Allusion
• Pun

The word and the sound have the same sound.

• Onomatopoeia
• Pun
• Irony
• Alliteration

The sequence of events in a story.

• Genre
• Rising Action
• Plot
• Conflict

Comparing 2 things using the words like or as.

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Simile

The feel YOU (the reader) get from the story (joy, anger, fear, etc.)

• Tone
• Mood
• Plot
• Conflict

A writing that involves a god/goddess

• Fiction

• Tall Tale

• Myth

• Legend