Literary terms
A work of literature meant to be performed for an audience by actors.
Drama
A contrast between expectation and reality.
Irony
H2O
What is water?
Orange cat, green eyes, white stripes, very common in households.
Ginger cat
A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
Simile
Paraphrase
Something that is neither created nor destroyed.
What is energy?
White, gray tail and face, blue bell eyes, domesticated, also found in households.
Siamese cat
A literary work in which vices, stupidities, and abuses are held up to the ridicule and contempt.
Satire
Details that appeal to the senses.
Imagery
The oxygen-carrying protein found in red blood cells.
What is hemoglobin?
Black splotches on fur, and orange splotches, lives out in the wild, hostile.
leopard
A part of the story, poem, play or movie that presents events that happened at an earlier time.
Flashback
Assigning human qualities to non-human things.
Personification
A basic force that keeps us grounded.
What is gravity?
A mane of fur, cold gaze, sharp teeth, hostile, kills, carnivore.
Lion
The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggests meaning.
Onomatopoeia
Extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Scientific name for the human windpipe.
What is the trachea?
White fur, tiny and adorable, light green eyes, lives in households, domesticated, Grumpy Cat.
Persian cat