Pyramid

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• Pyramid!

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Narrator knows everything about all of the
characters and their problems
3rd Person, Omniscient
Comparison between pairs of words
Reference to another literary work
Allusion To allude
Analogy
Author compares a character to Tom Sawyer
fastslow runwalk
CatDog KittenPuppy
Has a point of view
Perspective from which the story is told
Readers see action through one character (using
he, she. they)
Tells the story
Point of View
3rd Person, limited
Narrator
Could be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd
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The overall message or lesson the author wishes
to express in his/her literary work
Theme
Who or what against which the protagonist mainly
struggles
Written by the person him /herself
Autobiography
Life story of a real person
Antagonist
Opposes the protagonist
My Story by Chris Brown
Told by another person
Person/animal taking part in the action of a
story, play, or other literary work
Main character involved in the central conflict
of a literary work
Biography
Life story of a real person
Character
Protagonist
The Story of John Glenn
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As sly as a fox
Simile
Quick like a bunny
Ran like the wind
The tree reached out her arms to me.
Let the cat out of the bag
Hit the sack
Idiom
The laughing water
Personification
The stone-faced cliff
Jump down your throat
Ive told you a million times!!
Simile
I became a shadow.
Figurative Language
Personification
Metaphor
That boy is a clown!
8th graders are as loud as an atomic bomb!
Hyperbole
Evening of life
Idiom
I could eat a house!
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Problem solved Conflict resolved
Resolution
When the conflict can begin to be solved
Character struggles to survive in the wilderness
Individual Vs. Nature
Turning Point
Climax
Character struggles to rebuild after a hurricane
Point of highest interest and/or emotion
Introduces the story
Leads to resolution
Begins the protagonists problem
Provides background information
Occurs after the climax
Falling Action
Occurs after the exposition
Initiating Event
Exposition
Occurs before the initiating event
Starts the conflict
Helps protagonist Solve problem