Fiction Authors' Techniques
The literary term for the main problem of a story
What is conflict?
What are text features?
A figurative comparison using like or as, e.g. If you disturb Ms. Treuhaft-Ali when she is reading, she will growl at you like a hungry wolf.
What is a simile?
A poetry paragraph
What is a stanza?
The author of the Percy Jackson, Magnus Chase, Trials of Apollo, and other books
Who is Rick Riordan?
The lesson of a story
How the information is organized. Examples are: chronological order, description, problem-solution, cause-effect, compare-contrast
What is a text structure?
A figurative comparison that does NOT use like or as, such as "Your kindness and patience were the brightest star in my darkest night."
What is a metaphor?
The pattern of rhyming words in a poem
What is a rhyme scheme?
The author of Ghost, As Brave As You, and First Day Fly
A technique where a character is totally immersed in a memory that happened before the start of the story
What is flashback?
When the author gives the exact words of an eyewitness or expert
What is quoting / quoted words?
Exaggeration, e.g. "When the teacher called me up for the spelling bee, my face got so hot that the walk up to the front of the room could have been a marathon in the desert.
What is hyperbole?
The pattern of strict/unstrict syllables; the rhythm of a poem
What is meter?
The author of The Crossover, Rebound, Solo, and Seventy Six Dollars and Forty Nine Cents
Who is Kwame Alexander?
The narrator's attitude toward the events of the story
What is tone?
The author's main argument/opinion that they want to convince you of, stated in one sentence in the introduction and restated in every body paragraph
What is a claim?
What is a thesis?
A nonliteral saying that does not mean something in particular, e.g. "I wanted to keep her surprise party a secret, but her mom let the cat out of the bag and she found out."
What is an idiom?
Words close to each other that begin with the same sound, e.g.
"And it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you"
What is alliteration?
The author of Ninth Ward, Towers Falling, and Ghost Boys
Who is Jewell Parker Rhodes?
When the reader knows something that the main character does not
What is dramatic irony?
Even though two words may have the same literal meaning, they may have different positive or negative feelings associated with it. For example, smell has a neutral __, stench has a negative ___, and fragrance has a positive ___.
What is connotation?
A type of metaphor where a nonhuman thing is made human, e.g. "When my mom turned the car key, the engine angrily whined and screamed, and the whole car shuddered and sighed while spitting out smoke."
What is personification?
Internal rhyming; a repeated vowel sound within one line, e.g. "Welling and swelling I bear in the tide"
What is assonance?
The author of Bird and Dragons in a Bag
Who is Zetta Elliot?