This game helps students practice the vocabulary associated with learning about literary elements. This is the familiar game memory matching terms and definitions of literary devices and other parts of literature. This is a fun way for students to practice vocabulary with minimal prep time for the teacher.

Word List:

• alliteration

• falling action

• genre

• narrator

• setting

• antagonist

• fiction

• imagery

• non-fiction

• simile

• climax

• figurative language

• introduction

• personification

• static

• conflict

• first person

• literary devices

• plot

• theme

• denouement

• flashback

• metaphor

• protagonist

• third person

• dynamic

• foreshadow

• mood

• rising action

• third person omniscient