Figurative Language
Potpourri
Literary Elements
Synonyms and Antonyms
Poetry/Drama
100
Example - The tree danced in the breeze
What is personification?
100

Good schools should be part of our children's education. You may ask, how do we build good schools? First, we must meet the basic needs of children. Parents must provide the emotional and physical foundation at home. They should spend time helping children with homework and doing enjoyable things together. Finally, parents and children should worship together at a church service of their choice. The bottom line is that spiritual help is the roof that shelters families from harm.

What is to perusuade?

100
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point-of-view?
100

A word that means the same or has a similar meaning.

What is a synonym?

100
Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis
What are stage directions?
200
Example - The earth is a green blanket
What is metaphor?
200

The way ideas and information are arranged an organized.

What is text structure or organizational pattern? Now, list five text structures.

200
The use of clues by an author that suggest events that have yet to occur
What is foreshadowing?
200

Words that have opposite meanings

What is are antonyms?

200
In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is dialogue?
300
Example - Elizabeth is as fast as a cheetah.
What is simile?
300

The entity that tells the story to the audience.

What is a narrator?

300
The message or lesson of a story
What is theme?
300

Up:down::white:_____

What is black?

300
The repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
400
Sound words- "pow" "buzz" "swish"
What is onomatopoeia?
400

To conclude from evidence or premises,

What is to infer?

400
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
400

Fast : quick :: tough : ______

What is strong?

400
The use of a word or phrase more than one time--used to emphasize.
What is repetition?
500
Language that appeals to the 5 senses
What is imagery/sensory details?
500

Tell me, tell me, smiling child What the past is like to thee? 'An autumn evening soft and mild With a wind that signs mournfully.' Tell me, what is the present hour? 'A green and flowery spray Where a young bird sits gathering its power To mount and fly away.' And what is the future, happy one? 'A sea beneath a cloudless sun; A mighty, glorious, dazzling sea Stretching into infinity.' question: What is a metaphor for the "past"?

What is an autumn evening soft and mild?

500
1. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. 2. The author's attitude toward the subject.
1. What is mood? 2. What is tone?
500

salt : pepper :: sun :_________

What is moon?

500
The main unit of a poem; varies in length.
What is stanza?
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