Figurative Language
A comparison using the words "like" or "as"
Ex: I'm as sick as a dog
What is a Simile?
What is the climax
Helps the story by describing events, giving background info, or sharing thoughts/information that the characters may not say out loud.
What is Narrator?
A character's actions or words that show how they react to events.
What is External Response?
The overall message or lesson learned from the text
What is Theme?
A comparison between two things WITHOUT using the word "like" or "as"
Ex: you are the light of my life!
What is a Metaphor?
The end of the story when the main conflict gets resolved
What is the resolution?
What the characters say in the drama.
What are the lines?
A character's thoughts and feelings about what is happening in the story.
What is Internal Response?
What is a Flashback?
Giving human qualities to something that is not human
EX: the water danced in the wind
What is Personification?
When the conflict is beginning to develop
What is the rising action?
How the scene is setup
What is staging?
The story is told by a character that is in the story
Uses "I", "Me", and "We"
What is First-Person Point of View?
This shows the readers when to pause or add special meaning to certain words when reading a poem.
What is a Line Break?
An extreme exaggeration
EX: "I'm so hungry that I could eat a cow right now"
What is a Hyperbole?
Includes the characters, setting, and where the problem is introduced
A small section of a play where specific events happen
What is a scene?
The narrator is outside the story, but only knows the thoughts/feelings of ONE character
Uses "he", "she", and "they"
What is Third Person Limited Point of View?
What is Motivation?
Using a word that mimics a sound
EX: buzz! buzz! buzz!
What is Onomatopoeia?
When the problem gets resolved and there is no tension left.
What is the falling action?
The conversation between characters
What is Dialogue?
The narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts/feelings of almost ALL (or most) of the characters
Uses "he", "she", and "they"
What is Third Person Omniscient Point of View?
What the ENTIRE text is mostly about
What is Controlling Idea?