Figures of Speech
An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
I hated camping, and now there were a billion mosquitoes in our tent.
What is Hyperbole?
The Sequence of events in a story.
What is Plot?
A person's position on an issue.
What is a claim?
A person, animal, or "thing" in literature.
What is Character?
A group of lines that forma unit, much like a paragraph in prose.
What is Stanza?
Organizational items that label sections of text and tell what a section is about.
What is Titles, Headings, and Subheadings?
A struggle AGAINST another character, idea, or organization.
What is External Conflict?
Words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
The shaken soda fizzed out of the bottle.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The beginning of the story where the setting, characters, and conflict are introduced.
What is Exposition?
These support a claim
What are reasons?
A group of words that has the two main parts of a sentence; a complete subject and a complete predicate.
What is Clause?
The character or force working against the protagonist.
What is Antagonist?
The repetition of similar sounding words.
What is Rhyme?
A box beside or within text that provides additional information.
What is Sidebars?
An internal/emotional struggle between what the character wants to do and should do.
What is Internal Conflict?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.
The ancient car wheezed its last breath and refused to move another inch.
What is Personification?
The series of events, involving the characters, where the conflict intensifies leading toward the climax of the story.
What is Rising Action?
Fact and opinions that support reasons
What is evidence?
The main character.
What is Protagonist?
The rhyme at the end of a line.
What is End Rhyme?
A text treatment that brings attention to important words or ideas.
What is Bold Face Type?
The protagonist has a problem with another character.
What is Person vs Person?
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
While walking the dog, I stopped to shoot the breeze with our neighbor.
What is Idiom?
The "Turning Point" in the story; the conflict is the most intense, either internally or in action.
What is Climax?
Giving credit to an person, organization, or text for information
What is citiation (cite, citing)?
A sentence that contains one subject and one verb.
SV / SSV / SVV / SSVV
What is Simple Sentence?
A character mentioned only briefly.
What is Minor Character?
A text feature that shows locations or geography of an area
What is a map?
What is Person vs Nature?
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
Kerri cooked cupcakes in her sister's kitchen.
What is Alliteration?
The events in a story where a decision is made and the protagonist is working towards a resolution.
What is Falling Action?
The opposite viewpoint on an issue
What is the counterclaim (counterargument)?
A sentence with two or more simple sentences joined together using a comma or coordinating conjunction.
I,c,I / I,I
What is Compound Sentence?
The process of creating a character using words, thoughts, actions, appearance, and perception.
What is Characterization?
The repeating of words, phrases, or sounds.
What is Repetition?
A text feature that provides a detailed visual supporting the text.
What is a photograph?
The protagonist struggles with an internal problem such as fear, shyness, morals, or guilt.
What is Person vs Self?
A comparison of two, unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing.
Max is a starving hyena, devouring everything in sight.
What is Metaphor?
Either inferred or directly stated; the time and place that a story is set in.
What is Setting?
The response to a counterargument
What is the rebuttal?
Coordinating conjunctions; for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so are referred to as.
What are FANBOYS?
Two ways to bring a character to life.
What are dialogue and actions (also inner thinking, description, reactions, emotions are acceptable answers)
The repetition of a letter or sound at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
The description under a photograph
What is a caption?
The protagonist faces a problem with machines.
What is Person vs Technology?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
She wilted like a thirsty flower when the teacher corrected her grammar in front of the class.
What is Simile?
The conflict is resolved, loose ends are tied up, questions are answered, and the story ends.
What is Resolution?
The first paragraph of an essay
What is the introduction?
Words used to describe nouns.
What are Adjectives?
Words or phrases that appeal to the readers five senses; sight, hear, taste, touch, and smell.
What is imagery?
Visuals that compare information data on topics related to the text.
What are graphs and charts?
The protagonist faces a problem with society.
What is Person vs Society?
The message about life or human nature; this is implied but must be written as a statement
What is Theme?
The middle paragraphs of an essay
What are the body paragraphs?
Adjectives that modify a noun equally and are separated by a comma or "and".
What are Coordinate Adjectives?
An object that represents another object.
What is Symbol?
The protagonist struggles with a force that seems beyond his/her control.
What is Person vs Supernatural?
The overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature, heavily influenced by the setting and is reader-centered.
What is Mood?
The final paragraph of an essay
What is the conclusion?
A subordinate clause cannot stand alone in a sentence because it is dependent on the main clause.
What is a Dependent Clause?
The perspective or viewpoint of a story.
What is Point of View?
The attitude a writer takes towards the subject or the reader.
What is Tone?
When two sides of an issue are argued
What is a debate?
Subordinate clauses begin with conjunctions.
after, although, as, because, before, even though, if since, so that, though, unless, until, when, where, and while
What are Subordinating Conjunctions?
The narrator is a character typically the main character.
What is First-Person POV?
A struggle, obstacle, or controversy between opposing forces.
What is Conflict?
A sentence that contains a dependent clause and an independent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
The narrator is not a character in the story but more like a voice that tells the story.
What is Third-Person POV?
A sentence with a two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
What is a compound complex sentence?
The narrator knows what all the characters think and feel, all-knowing.
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of just one character, usually the main character.
What is Third-Person Limited?