Figurative language
Comparison NOT using like or as
What is a metaphor?
A one sentence summary of a text.
What is the main idea?
The use of concrete things to represent ideas.
What is symbolism?
A playwright creates this when the time or place of the story changes.
What is a scene?
Fiction that is believable, and contains actual places that existed, for example, but did not ACTUALLY happen with the characters involved in the story.
What is realistic fiction?
An intentionally exaggerated figure of speech.
What is a hyperbole?
The most intense moment in a story.
What is climax, or peak?
The giving of clues to hint at something still to come.
What is foreshadowing?
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
A piece of literature in which the author is also the subject of the story.
What is an autobiography?
Applies human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
Time, place, duaration of the story
What is the setting?
A return to an earlier time in a story to give prior information.
What is flashback?
The author of a drama.
What is a playwright?
Literature written to be performed.
What is a drama?
"Bobby began bagging the papers..." is an example of...
What is alliteration?
The events that lead to the climax, or peak moment, of a story.
What is rising action?
The implication that the actual situation is quite different than that represented.
What is irony?
The character that works against a main character in a story.
What is the antagonist?
Genre that is based on actual events, but contains "imagined" dialogue.
What is historical fiction?
Words that mimic the sound they are describing.
What is onomatopoeia?
First person, second person, third person
What is Point of View?
Typically used in drama, a long speech in which a character is alone on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
Occurs when a speaker's intention is the opposite of what they are saying. For example, a character steps out into a hurricane and says, “What nice weather we're having!”
What is irony?
Literature which cannot occur in the real world. Typically contains witchcraft or magic.
Example: Children walk through a closest or wardrobe and enter the world of Narnia.
What is fantasy?