Stories, stories, stories
Figurative language
Characters
Metaphor, Simile, or Personification
Who said it?
100
The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.
climax
100
What is this an example of? My homework weighs a ton!
hyperbole
100
Which person is this an example of? I was so tired that I couldn't lift my legs to walk home.
1st person
100
The wind howled throughout the night.
personification
100
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Juliet
200
This literary genre tells a dramatic story about the experiences of your own life.
memoir
200
"The rustling leaves kept me awake."
onomatopoeia
200
This is what we call a common type of character that is the same throughout history.
archetype
200
This guy is a monkey on the drums.
metaphor
200
"The Revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls. And so went the revolution in my country"
Marjane Satrapi
300
The Hunger Games, The Giver, 1984, and Divergent are all types of this genre.
dystopian fiction
300
It's just... we can't be together anymore.
caesura
300
Which person is this an example of? "You should wash your hands before you eat, you know." he said to John.
3rd Person
300
That lady's voice is like nails on a chalkboard.
simile
300
"There’s nothing we can do. It’s always been this way. Before me, before you, before the ones who came before you. Back and back and back."
Jonas
400
When a character on stage makes a short comment towards the audience, and the other characters on stage do not know about it.
an aside
400
Shakespeare is not a bad writer.
litotes
400
What type of character reveals the key traits of the main character?
Foil
400
My mind is like an atom bomb ready to explode.
simile
400
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. (Author or title will be accepted.)
George Orwell (1984)
500
The rhyme scheme of this type of poem is abab-cdcd-efef-gg.
a Shakespearean sonnet
500
“Men sell the wedding bells.”
assonance
500
"You walk into the room, your fingers cold as ice."
2nd person
500
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
metaphor
500
"It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea, / That a maiden there lived whom you may know / By the name of Annabel Lee"
Edgar Allen Poe
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