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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The one against the main character.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Person v Person

• Narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The type of story (fiction/nonfiction)

• Non-Ficiton

• Fiction

• Type

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Comparing 2 things NOT using like or as.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Allusion
• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The word and the sound have the same sound.

• Onomatopoeia
• Pun
• Irony
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The sequence of events in a story.

• Genre
• Rising Action
• Plot
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Comparing 2 things using the words like or as.

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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