the use of words that appeal to the reader's senses
imagery
similar to a paragraph but in a poem
stanza
poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
free verse
Don't touch the magical rose!
Beauty and the Beast
when an author gives the reader a hint that something will happen later in the story
foreshadow
A speech form or an expression of a given phrase that is peculiar. EX: "It's raining cats and dogs."
Idiom
A scene that interrupts the present action to depict something that happened earlier.
Flashback
Little blue people
Smurfs
words the characters say to each other
dialogue
A comparison that uses like or as. EX: "Man's life is like a summer leaf."
Simile
A phrase that combines contrary terms. EX: bitter sweet, sweet sorrow, jumbo shrimp
Oxymoron
In this movie there's a snowman
Frozen
evaluate
to judge
A deliberate extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration
Hyperbole
What builds attention to the text for the reader
Suspense
He gets a long nose
Pinocchio
to clearly show
demonstrate
a type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
personificati
Conflict between man and an element of nature
Man Vs. Nature
There is a deer in this movie
Bambi