Figurative Language Terms
Story Elements
Poetry
Figurative Language Examples
Other
100
A direct comparison, using like or as, between two things that are unlike in most ways but appear to be alike in one way
What is a simile
100
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting.
100
A "paragraph" in a poem.
What is a stanza.
100
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
What is a simile.
100

Two words that mean the same thing

What are synonyms?

200
Giving human qualities to an idea, an object or an experience.
What is personification
200

A problem in the story that needs to be resolved

What is the conflict?

200

"The Aeneid of Virgil" tells the story of Aeneas following a guide into the underworld. What type of poem is this?

What is an epic poem?

200
The lunch line is a million miles long
What is a hyperbole
200
Two words that mean the opposite
What are antonyms
300
An indirect comparison between two unlike things with common elements
What is a metaphor
300
The position of the narrator of the story and what the writer sees from that vantage point.
What is point of view
300
A Japanese poem that consists of 3 lines with 5, 7 and 5 syllables
What is a Haiku
300
"Screech, CRASH!" the sound of the cars colliding filled me with a sense of dread.
What is onomatopoeia
300
two words that sound the same but are spelt differently and and have differnt meanings
What are homynyms
400
The repeated use of the initial letter in two or more words in a sentence
What is alliteration
400
The story's main idea. The "message" that the author is trying to convey.
What is theme
400
Writing with detail that arouses the senses.
What is imagery.
400
She sells seashells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration.
400
These are the marks surrounding direct speech
What is are quotation marks
500

An extravagant and intentional exaggeration for dramatic effect. "I'm so hungry, I can eat a horse."

What is a hyperbole.

500

The feeling that a piece of writing produces in the reader

What is mood?

500

Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain" is what type of poem? 

What is an elegy?

500
Life is a rollercoaster
What is a metaphor
500

When you tell someone, "Stay gold, Ponyboy." is an example of what figurative language?

What is an allusion? 

An allusion is a reference to something well known without having to explain it. 

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