Literary Elements Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| foreshadowing | giving clues about something that will occur later in the story. |
| flashback | is a scene or event that happened before the beginning of a story (sometimes interrupts a scene). |
| Third person omniscient | A narrator outside of the action knows what all characters are thinking or feeling. This narrator is "all knowing." He, she, they |
| Inference; infer | making a guess based on information from text combined with your own prior knowledge - to determine something is true based on the evidence seen. |
| soliloquy | speech given on stage by one person and are on stage alone |
| plot | sequence of events in a story |
| exposition | setting, characters, and conflict introduced |
| nonfiction | writing that is based on fact |
| First person point of view | A character tells the story from his or her own point of view. I, me, we |
| climax | turning point; the highest peak of action in the story |
| monologue | speech given by one person on stage when others are on stage to the audience |
| fiction | writing that includes made up stories, events, and people. |
| Third person Limited | A narrator outside of the action tells the story of one character only; the narrator is limited to what this one character knows and sees. |
| resolution/denouement | final section of plot/ties up the loose ends of story. |
| autobiography | book about someone's own life written by them. |
| Theme | The message the author wants you to take away from a story. The main, overall idea or lesson learned from the text. |
| biography | book about someone that is written by someone else. |
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