Mixed Bag
What is the feeling of excitement, tension, or nervousness a reader feels when they want to know what will happen next in a story?
Suspense
What is the author's purpose if they are giving you lots of facts?
to inform
Which part of the plot is at the beginning of a story and reveals the setting and characters?
Exposition
Which type of figurative language uses "like" or "as" to compare two things?
Simile
What is the central message or lesson of a story called?
Theme
What are the spoken words between characters in a story called?
Dialogue
What is the author's purpose if they are trying to make you feel something?
to entertain
Which part of the plot where the problem or conflict is revealed?
Rising Action
Which type of figurative language uses words to represent sounds?
Onomatopoeia
What is a repeated word, image, symbol, or idea in a text that helps develop a theme?
A motif
What are the three types of irony?
Situational, verbal, and dramatic
What is the author's purpose if they are trying to convince you of something?
to persuade
Which part of the plot is when the story is at it's highest point of interest or at the most intense moment?
The Climax
Which type of figurative language uses compares two things without the use of a transitional word?
Metaphor
Which type of figurative language uses extreme exaggeration?
Hyperbole
What is a surprising change in a story that the reader does not expect?
A plot twist
Which point of view is a story told in if the narrator is a part of the story?
1st person POV
Which part of the plot is where the events and complications of the story begin to resolve themselves?
Falling Action
Which type of figurative language gives human qualities to something that is not human?
Personification
What are clues or hints that suggest what might happen later in the story?
Foreshadowing
What are the 3 rhetorical appeals?
Ethos, pathos, and logos
Why would an author use juxtopostion?
Make a point: to show how they are different or similar, often to make a point or create surprise
Which part of the plot reveals or suggests the outcome of the conflict?
Resolution
Which type of figurative language uses words or phrases not meant to be taken literally? Ex: Time flies when you're having fun!
Idiom
Which type of figurative language is it when the same beginning sound is repeated in two or more times in one sentence?
Alliteration