Figures of Speech
It involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually using the words “like” or “as”
Simile
It is the perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
The use of objects or images to represent ideas.
Symbolism
The stars were asleep.
Personification
These are the individuals in the story.
Characters
It is a figure of speech that appropriates human attributes and qualities to an animal, an object, or an idea.
Personification
These are the main events that make up the story.
Plot
It is a technique wherein the author exaggerates to enhance the meaning in the context of fiction.
Creative license
I had a dream so big and loud, I jumped so high I touched the clouds.
Hyperbole
What are the parts of a plot?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution
It is a figure of speech in which one thing is said when the opposite is meant.
Irony
Time, place, and environment in which a story takes place.
Setting
This is the general term for the conversation between two or more people as a feature of a story.
Dialogue
A million dreams are keeping me awake.
Paradox
Creative nonfiction
It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly, but which may include a latent truth.
Paradox
It is the central idea.
Theme
The writer uses language that appeals to the senses to create “word pictures” in the reader's mind.
Imagery
It was expected of a genius to get zero in a test.
Irony
It is the opposite of literal language which states facts and no more than facts.
Figurative language
It is a phrase containing a juxtaposition of two contradictory terms.
Oxymoron
Central struggle of the main character.
Conflict
The presentation of events or scenes early in a story which hints at something that occurs later in the story.
Foreshadowing
She is not unkind.
Litotes
What are the three types of irony?
Situational, Dramatic, and Verbal