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Fiction & Drama
Figurative Language
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A word or phrase in apposition.
What is an appositive?
100
When writers try to persuade people to do something because everyone else is doing it.
What is bandwagon?
100
The major turning point in the plot of a story.
What is the climax?
100
Giving personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is personifiction?
100
The struggle occurring within a character's mind.
What is an internal conflict?
200
-Capitalize names. -Capitalize the first word of sentences. -Capitalize places.
What are capitalization rules?
200
Persuading by the use of reasoning & logic.
What is logos?
200
A problem in the story. It can be internal or external.
What is conflict?
200
Visually descriptive or figurative language.
What is imagery?
200
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
A sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
What is a comppound sentence?
300
Convincing by the character, credibility, & morals of the author.
What is ethos?
300
A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
What is mood?
300
A brief and indirect reference to something.
What is an allusion?
300
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
400
A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
400
Persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions.
What is pathos?
400
The central idea of the story.
What is theme?
400
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
400
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
This modifies the independent clause of a sentence or serves as a component of it.
What is a dependent clause?
500
Mistaken beliefs, mostly based on unsound arguments.
What are fallacies?
500
The events that make up a story.
What is plot?
500
When an author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked vehicles, tenors, and grounds.
What is an extended metaphor?
500
A point of view that is more based on opinion rather than fact.
What is subjective point of view?
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