Figurative Language
Fiction Terms
Nonfiction Terms
Story Elements
Wild Card
100
A comparison using "like" or "as" Ex. "Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a simile?
100

What you call the type of narration of a story

What is point of view?

100
The main idea or main point that the author is making, or what the text is mostly about.
What is the central idea?
100

an object, person, situation, event, or action that represents something else.

What is a Symbol/Symbolism?

100
The feeling created by a piece of literature. Ex. Joyful, Mournful
What is mood?
200
Direct comparison Ex. "The front is a cage."
What is a metaphor?
200
Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
200
When an author is instructing, entertaining, or persuading the reader.
What is the purpose?
200

Phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across. 

(Ex: simile, idiom, metaphor, etc)

What is figurative language?

200
The author/speaker's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
300
Gives human characteristics to non-humans. Ex. "The trees whispered in the breeze."
What is personification?
300

The moral or lesson that the story is trying to teach/convey.

What is theme?

300
The act of coming to a conclusion based on facts or making and educated guess.
What is an inference?
300

The process of the author developing a character

What is characterization?

300
When a character struggles with an internal or external force.
What is a conflict?
400
A statement that is not meant to be taken literally. Ex. "Are you pulling my leg?"
What is an idiom?
400

When a character in the story is the one narrating the story (uses I/my/me/we/us)

What is first person point of view?

400
How a passage is organized. Ex. Compare and contrast, cause and effect, etc.
What is structure?
400

A character who is well-developed and has many interesting or unique traits

What is a round character?

400

When the opposite of what you expect to happens occurs/when you say the opposite of what you mean/when the audience knows something the characters don't

what is irony?

500
Extreme exaggeration. Ex. "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
500

The positive or negative feelings/emotions that are associated with a word.

What is connotation?

500
The use of a question for persuasion that doesn't really need to be answered by the reader.
What is a rhetorical question?
500

A character who changes throughout a story

What is a dynamic character?

500

what you use to figure out what an unfamiliar word in a passage means

What is context clues?

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