Figurative Language
Plot Devices
Characterization
Identifying figurative language
Assorted literary terms
100

Giving human qualities to an animal or object

What is personification?

100

This part of the plot lead up to the most intense moment in the story

What is the rising action?

100

Main character in a novel, involved in the conflict

What is a protagonist?

100

The trees danced in the wind

What is personification?

100

A person, place, object or action that stands for something beyond itself

What is a symbol?

200

A comparison between two things without using like or as

What is a metaphor?

200

This part of the plot wraps up the conflict and brings the struggle to a close


What is resolution?

200

Characters who resemble real people and have realistic flaws

What is a round character?

200

Buzz, zip and swish

What is onomatopoeia?

200

In this point of view, the story is told by one of the characters in the novel

What is first person? 
300

Words and phrases that appeal to readers' five senses

What is imagery?

300

A main problem or struggle in a story that drives the plot

What is the conflict?

300

This type of character in a novel typically undergoes an important change. 

What is a dynamic character?

300

The wind is like a knife

What is a simile?

300

Repetition of vowel sounds

What is assonance?

400

A comparison between two things that have some quality in common using like or as

What is a simile?

400

This part of the plot establishes setting and introduces the conflict

What is the exposition?

400

This type of character typically remains unchanged throughout a novel

What is a static character?

400

It took a week to wait in the lunch line today

What is hyperbole?

400

This type of narrator knows everything that happens within the story, including characters' thoughts.

What is omniscient?

500

An expression with no literal meaning. A saying.

What is an idiom?

500

These hints suggest to readers what will happen later in the story

What is foreshadowing?

500

This type of character typically has no depth to their character

What is a flat character?

500

Bloody Blameful Blade

What is alliteration?

500
The way the narrator feels about the story.

What is tone?

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