A comparison between two seemingly unrelated things, using connecting words such as like, as or seems in the comparisons.
What is Simile?
100
A comparison that uses no connecting words.
What is Metaphor?
100
Giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human.
What is Personification?
100
The feeling created in a reader by a literary work.
What is Mood?
100
A word, such as plop, buzz, or snap, whose sound suggests its meaning.
What is Onomatopoeia?
200
A struggle between two opposing forces in a novel, short story or play.
What is Conflict?
200
The repeating of beginning consonant sounds in a group of words.
What is Alliteration?
200
Hints about events that will occur further in the story. Hints may appear in dialog or narration.
What is Foreshadowing?
200
An interruption in the story to tell about events that happened earlier.
What is Flashback?
200
Words or phrases that appeal to the senses and conjure up mental images.
What is Imagery?
300
A culturally based expression that means something different from what it is.
What is Idiom?
300
Obvious exaggeration used to emphasize a point or add excitement and humor to a story.
What is Hyperbole?
300
Something concrete that stands for something abstract.
What is Symbol?
300
A character who serves as a contrast to another more primary character to point out specific traits.
What is Foil?
300
The attitude an author takes toward a subject, character or reader created by word choice and detail.
What is Tone?
400
Indirectly expressed insights.
What is Theme?
400
An author’s use of speech patterns that fit a character’s background.
What is Dialect?
400
The repetition of words, phrases or sentence structures adding rhythm and emotional impact to writing.
What is Parallelism?
400
An extended oxymoron.
What is Paradox?
400
Writing that makes fun of habits, ideas, or weaknesses in a person, an institution, an entire society, or humanity in general.
What is Satire?
500
A casual reference in mentioning something from some other literature source.
What is allusion?
500
The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases or words side by side for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense or character development.
What is Juxtaposition?
500
The water was a refreshing air conditioner as it misted onto her arms.
What is a metaphor?
500
A two or three word phrase that contains opposite words or ideas.
What is Oxymoron?
500
She thought back to the beginning of her trip when the stranger had bumped into her at the airport. He must have dropped the camera in her purse by accident.