Figurative Language
Comparing two different things using the words "like" or "as". For example, "He smiles like the Joker".
What is a simile?
This is part of the story when characters are introduced.
What is a meter?
This word refers to someone who is deathly afraid of spiders.
What is Arachnophobia?
This type of writing involves using evidence to support claims, and uses evidence and reason to support claims.
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. For example, "I could eat a whole cow!"
What is a hyperbole?
A lesson or moral that a person learns from a story.
What is theme?
A group of lines in poem
What is a stanza?
This word describes a person who has an extreme fear of flying.
What is aerophobia?
This type of writing is based on presenting facts and research. No opinions or judgements.
This word describes when a writer gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
What is Point of View?
Nursery rhymes use this type of rhythm
What is a sing-song rhythm, or repetition?
This word describes a person who has a deep fear of heights.
What is a acrophobia?
This type of writing can be either fiction or non-fiction, and includes dialogue, pacing, and sensory or figurative language details.
What is narrative writing?
The word refers to making a biblical or famous reference to another work. For example, "Beyonce is Queen"
What is an Allusion?
This is the "peak" of the plot where all the tension of the rising action finally comes to a head.
What is Climax?
This word means the author’s attitude toward the subject, and describes if the word is negative or positive.
What is Tone?
This word describes a person who has a deep fear of small or tight spaces.
What is Claustrophobia?
This is the last sentence in an argumentative essay in paragraph 1.
What is a thesis, or claim?
This word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action; it refers to when it is spoken.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The emotion or feeling that readers get from reading the words on a page.
What is Mood?
This is a small section of a line in a poem.
This word refers to having a severe phobia of holes, especially a lot of them in a concentrated area.
What is trypophobia?
This is commonly referred to as dot dot dot, and placed at the end of a sentence to show an intentional omision of words, trailing of speech, or pause in thought.
What is an ellipsis?