Figurative Language
This device compares two things using "like" or "as".
This device compares two things using "like" or "as".
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
The "beat" or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
A situation where the opposite of what you expect happens.
What is irony?
A direct comparison without "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
Words that imitate natural sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
A unit of poetry made up of lines (like a paragraph in prose).
What is a stanza?
The turning point or most intense moment in the story.
What is the climax?
A repeated idea or symbol in a story.
What is a motif?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
What is assonance?
A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
The introduction of characters, setting, and conflict.
What is the exposition?
An object that represents something deeper.
What is a symbol?
A deliberate exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
The repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of words.
What is consonance?
Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
Events that lead up to the climax.
What is rising action?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is third-person omniscient?
A reference to another work of literature or history.
What is an allusion?
The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
Events after the climax leading to the resolution.
What is falling action?
An interruption in the chronological order of a narrative.
What is a flashback?