Figurative Language
Fiction Terms
Nonfiction Terms
Poetry Terms
Wild Card
100
A comparison using "like" or "as" Ex. "Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a simile?
100
A conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
100

The main idea or main point that the author is making, or what the text is mostly about.

What is the central idea or controlling idea or thesis?

100

an object, person, situation, event, or action that represents something else.

What is a Symbol/Symbolism?

100
The feeling created by a piece of literature. Ex. Joyful, Mournful
What is mood?
200

Direct comparison Ex. "The cloud is a cotton ball."

What is a metaphor?

200
Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
200

When an author is instructing, entertaining, or persuading the reader. Hint: It's easy as PIE...

What is the author's purpose?

200

Phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across. 

(Ex: simile, idiom, metaphor, etc) SHAMPOO

What is figurative language?

200
The author/speaker's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
300
Gives human characteristics to non-humans. Ex. "The trees whispered in the breeze."
What is personification?
300

The moral or lesson that the story is trying to teach/convey.

What is theme?

300
The act of coming to a conclusion based on facts or making and educated guess.
What is an inference?
300
What is the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
When a character struggles with an internal or external force.
What is a conflict?
400

The same sound(s) at the beginning of closely connected words. Ex. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

What is an alliteration?

400
A reference to a person, place, or another work of literature. Ex. In Persepolis, Marji talks about listening to Kim Wilde & Iron Maiden.
What is an allusion?
400

How a passage is organized. Ex. Compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem/solution, chronological, etc. (THIS ONE IS challenging!!)

What is structure?

400

A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings; it is typically written in first person.

What is lyric(al) poetry?

400
When two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect Ex. Living death, jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
500
Extreme exaggeration. Ex. "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
500

The positive or negative feelings/emotions that are associated with a word.

What is connotation?

500

The use of a question for persuasion that doesn't really need to be answered by the reader. EX. "Have you lost your mind?"

What is a rhetorical question?

500
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
What are couplets?
500
A brief and sometimes witty story that focuses on a single interesting event, often in order to make a point or teach a moral lesson.
What is an anecdote?
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