What is the comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?
100
In this kind of essay, the aim is to explain the reasons or the results of an event or situation.
What is a cause and effect essay
100
The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters.
What is omniscient
100
The time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation occurs.
What is setting
200
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
What is a metaphor
200
Any member of a small class of words that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what.
What is a pronoun
200
The voice used by an author to tell a story or speak a poem.
What is narrator or speaker
200
The sequence of events that take place in the story.
What is plot
300
Exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300
A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
What is irony
300
"You" is the pronoun of reference in this form of narration.
What is second person
300
This is made up of three elements: appearance, which is the way the character looks; personality, which is the way the character thinks or feels; and behavior, which is the way the character acts and reacts.
What is characterization
400
A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.
What is personification
400
The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style.
What is tone
400
The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters.
What is first person
400
The main message in the story.
What is theme
500
The use of words that mimic sounds.
What is onomatopoeia
500
An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
What is a stanza
500
The narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the characters. This narrator does not describe his or her role in the action.
What is third person limited
500
Who tells the story or a way the events of a story are conveyed to the reader.