Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Plot
Writing
Mixed
100
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The character in a story who is in conflict with the main character.
What is the antagonist?
100
The beginning of a story, where the setting is revealed and characters are introduced.
What is the expostion?
100
The first sentence of a body paragraph, which states the point of the paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
100
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
A comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar in which one thing becomes another.
What is a metaphor?
200
A hint of things to come.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The turning point or most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
200
Words or phrases used to move smoothly from one idea to another.
What are transitions?
200
The type of conflict where a person is having a difficult time making a decision.
What is internal conflict?
300
When a non-human subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
The struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
300
The part of the story where the main conflict is revealed.
What is rising action?
300
Proof/details that prove the point you make in your topic sentence.
What are concrete details?
300
A conversation between 2 or more people.
What is dialogue?
400
Descriptive language used to create pictures for the reader using details such as sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement.
What is imagery?
400
A narrator who is all-knowing, who can tell readers what any character is thinking or feeling.
What is omniscient narrator?
400
The part of the story where the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
400
A hook (question, anecdote, fact, quotation) and the thesis statement.
What are the elements you must have in an introduction.
400
A deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
500
The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words. i.e. She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
500
The reason a character thinks, feels, or acts a certain way.
What is motivation?
500
Another word for resolution.
What is denouement?
500
The sentence where the writer states a topic and an opinion.
What is the thesis statement?
500
When the climax of the story is a letdown (it doesn't end up the way you thought it was going to).
What is anticlimax
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