Elements of Nonfiction
The small writing underneath a picture or image
What is a caption?
The main events of a play, novel, movie
What is plot?
Giving human characteristics to things that are not human.
What is personification?
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words
What is rhyme?
a group or system of interconnected people or things
What is a network?
A book written by one person about another person's life
What is a biography?
The series of events that occur after the inciting incident, leading up to the climax
What is rising action?
A figure of speech that compares two different things by stating that one is the other
What is a metaphor?
The action of repeating something that has already been said or written
a state of annoyance.
What does chafe mean?
Words that are slanted to the right
What are italicized words?
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something
What is the climax?
A phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense
What is an idiom?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
not in a straight or level position.
What is askew?
Visual representations of data that use various elements like lines, bars, or points
What are graphs?
The part of the plot that occurs after the climax
What is the falling action?
Compare two things using words such as "like", "as",
What is a simile?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
What is alliteration?
very serious or formal in manner, behavior, or expression.
What is solemn?
A short description of a book, movie, or other product
What is a blurb?
The final part of a play, movie, or narrative
What is the resolution?
Where a word's sound imitates or resembles the sound it represents
What is onomatopoeia?
Images, objects, or concepts to represent ideas, themes, or emotions beyond their literal meaning
What is symbolism?
to do something legally within the law
What is legitimately?