figurative language
Poetry Terms
elements of a short story
Vocabulary
From our stories
100

Giving a nonhuman human characteristics

What is personification?

100

This is noted with a capital letter at the end of a line of poetry

What is Rhyme Scheme?

100

where and when an event takes place in a short story

What is setting

100

It is what the passage or paragraph is about.

What is the main idea?

100

This short nonfiction piece centered on the death of over 100 women in NYC.

What is Flesh and Blood So Cheap

200

a direct comparison of two different things

What is metaphor

200

A group of lines in a poem (a paragraph of poetry)

What is a stanza?

200

the most intense or exciting high point of a short story

What is climax

200

The reason why an author writes.

What is Author's Purpose?

200

In the Highway Man, both Bess and the Highway Man end up ________

What is dead

300
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300

This is the term for words or phrases that appeal to our 5 senses. (There's a hint in this question)

What is sensory language?

300

the main events of a short story

What is plot

300

When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.

What is context clues?

300

This is the rite of passage for Carlos

What is the unknown taco

400
the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
What is onomatopoeia
400

Identify the rhyme scheme of the following words as if they were the final words in a line.

Dog

Log

Cat

Sat

Fan

Can

Apple


What is AABBCCD?

400

the lesson or moral of a story

What is theme

400

The feeling the author wants the reader to get.

What is mood?

400

Fan Club shows this type of irony when the main character joins in on the bullying.

What is situational irony?

500
the repeated use of the same constant at the beginning of words
What is alliteration
500
The type of figurative language when an author creates a mental image for the readers.

What is imagery?

500

the perspective from which the story's told

What is point of view

500

The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.

What is tone?

500

No Dream Too High focuses on what gymnast

What is Simone Biles

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