What am I?
Example Extravaganza
Plot Party
Parts of Speech Teach
Wild Cards
100

A hint given to the reader of what is to come in the story.

Foreshadwoing

100

Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Alliteration

100

Where the conflict gets resolved or solved.

Climax

100
People, places, things, ideas

Nouns (Subjects)

100

I am like a red rose, newly sprung in June.

Simile

200

A person, place,or object, that has meaning in itself, but suggests other meanings as well.

Symbol

200

It is raining cats and dogs outside.

Idiom

200

Where the characters, setting, and central conflict are first mentioned.

Exposition (Introduction)

200

This answers What is being done? in a sentence.

Verb (Doing and Helping)

200

When you expect one thing to happen but another occurs.

Irony

300

The main idea, message or underlying meaning of a literary work.

Theme

300

I am so hot I could fry an egg on my forhead!

Hyperbole

300

Where events surround the central conflict.

Rising Action

300

This tells Who, Which One, What Kind, How Many of subjects/nouns.

Adjectives

300

He is a cheetah when he runs a race; he never loses.

Metaphor

400

Learning about a character through what they say, do, think, etc.

Characterization

400

The 'snap', 'crackle' and 'pop' of my cereal alarmed me.

Onomatopoeia

400

Where any lingering questions are answered.

Falling Action

400

This modifies or describes Adjectives and Verbs.

Adverbs

400

An author's attitude toward the subject they are writing about in a story.

Tone

500

A reference to a real famous person, place, thing, idea within another piece of literature.

Allusion

500

The tree wept leaves over the loss of summer.

Personification

500

This can be a resolution or conclusion.

The end

500

What is the adverb in the sentence below:

He quickly grabbed the ugly jacket.

quickly

500

1st person and 3rd person are most common examples of this in literature.

Point of view

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