Figurative Language
An exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
The repetition of the first consonant sound in words.
What is alliteration?
The central character is challenged by forces that are not of this world.
Who is person vs the supernatural?
The character that causes conflict with the main character.
Who is the antagonist?
Where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
When authors give human traits to animals or some other lifeless object.
What is Personification?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A well-developed, lifelike character with realistic emotions, conflicting feelings, and multiple traits.
What is a round character?
The series of events of a story.
What is a plot?
Tells the story either in the first, second or third person point of view.
Who is the narrator?
Situation or action being one thing but meaning something different.
What is Irony?
The flow of the beat in a poem.
What is rhythm?
A character that has an important inner change.
Who is a dynamic character?
The solution of the conflict is apparent and possibly solved.
What is the resolution?
How the reader feels about the story.
What is mood?
A writer ’s vivid description that helps readers visualize using one or more of their 5 senses.
What is Imagery?
A Japanese poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
What is a Haiku?
A struggle that takes place in a character's mind is called internal conflict.
What is an internal conflict?
The characters, setting and basic situations are introduced.
What is the exposition?
The most exciting part of a story where all of the main conflict comes together.
What is the climax?
A phrase that cannot be interpreted literally.
What is an idiom?
A form of poetic structure in which there is a focus on the repetition of similar vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
A problem that the main character or characters face.
What is a conflict?
The author includes a scene that happened before the story started.
What is a flashback?
An abstraction that represents the central idea of the story.
What is a theme?