Figurative Language
What is a simile?
The highest point of action on the plot diagram.
What is the climax?
In the SWBST summarizing the strategy, it is the W.
What is the goal or objective of the main character?
What is the narrator?
Buenos Aires, Argentina in "The House Taken Over."
What is the setting?
An extreme exaggeration such as "I'm so tired I can sleep 1,000 years."
What is hyperbole?
The location or historical time period of a story.
What is the setting?
It must be included in every summary and is the beginning S in the SWBST strategy.
What is the main character?
The genre of "The House of Usher."
What is Gothic Horror?
The hobby Irene uses to pass the time in "The House Taken Over."
A direct comparison that DOES NOT use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
The villain or rival in a story.
What is the antagonist?
The conclusion or resolution to a story is represented by this letter in the SWBST strategy?
What is T?
The antagonist in "The House of Usher."
The original version was "Casa Tomada."
What is "House Taken Over?"
"I knew 'I was cooked' when I saw how angry my father was for arriving home at midnight," is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
The result of the tone in a story.
What is the mood?
The conflict is represented by this letter in the SWBST summarizing strategy?
What is the letter B?
What is imagery?
The common emotion of both protagonists at the end of "House of Usher" and "House Taken Over."
When a human characteristic is given to something not human.
Hints and clues the author gives about upcoming events in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
The "So" in the SWBST summarizing strategy.
What is the plan?
What is the resolution?
The similar universal message in "House of Usher" and "House Taken Over" is this literary element.
What is theme?