I am a common saying to a native language. Example "he ratted on me"
Idiom
100
Literal Language
Exact dictionary definition of a word
100
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
hyperbole
100
Alliteration
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers (same beginning sound)
100
Protagonist
Spongebob is my favorite cartoon Protagonist (or main character).
200
I am an insinuation, or a hint
Inference or infer
200
Connotation
Feelings, emotions, or slang associated with a word
200
A police station gets robbed
Irony
200
Foil Characters
Mother & Nurse in Romeo & Juliet
200
Tragic Hero
Julius Caesar was a tragic hero whose tragic flaw was his desire for more and more power
300
I am a play, book, or movie that is an allusion for something else entirely.
Allegory
300
Dialogue
Talking between two or more characters
300
The female author writes about the "male dominant world" and interviews only females
author bias
300
Oxymoron
"Jumbo Shrimp" (Juxtuposing two seemingly contradictory terms)
300
Figurative
"The president's got the whole world in his hand's", (figuratively speaking).
400
I am a reoccuring theme or symbol
Motif
400
Theme
Moral of the story
400
A man had the left side of his body cut off. He's all "right" now.
pun
400
Allusion
I eat vegetables every once in a blue moon
400
Flashback
When I saw the mullet, I had flashbacks of 80's music and song's like "Don't Tell My Heart- My Achy Breaky Heart..."
500
I am a moment of sudden realization & extreme significance.
Epiphany
500
Thesis
Arguable main idea/argument. Usually presented in the first paragraph.
500
When Cassie found out my mom died of cancer, she wanted to sugar-coat it. She said,"So your mom went to go 'join the Lord- she went to a better place'.
Eupehemism
500
Soliloquy
"To Be or Not to Be-That Is The Question"
-Hamlet's Soliloquy (speaking to himself)
500
Onomatopoeia
There was a lot of Onomatopoeia examples in the comic strip. It said "Boom", "Bang", & "Snap" in every bubble.