The author tells us directly what the character is like.
What is direct characterization?
100
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
100
someone says one thing but means another
What is verbal irony?
100
exaggerated figure of speech
What is hyperbole?
200
unrhymed poetry
What is free verse?
200
A character struggles within himself.
What is internal conflict?
200
POW ZAP BANG
What is onomatopoeia?
200
a short story that teaches a moral
What is a parable?
200
Tom Sawyer to Huck Finn, for example
What is a foil?
300
4 lines of poetry
What is a quatrain?
300
Man vs. man, man vs. nature
What is external conflict?
300
jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
300
a work that makes fun of another piece of work
What is parody?
300
A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred ti by something closely associated with it. Ex. "We requested the crown support for petition."
What is metonymy?
400
The President is a lame duck who is running out of gas.
What is a mixed metaphor?
400
A character that has only one or two personality traits.
What is a flat character?
400
"gonna" used in everyday language.
What is colloquialism?
400
19th century writing that depicts life as it is
What is realism?
400
calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea
What is apostrophe?
500
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
500
A character that changes in some important way.
What is a dynamic character?
500
repeated vowel sounds
What is assonance?
500
a reference to another piece of literature, foe example