Figurative Language
Writing/Figurative Language
Reading
In a story
Take a Chance
100

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

Personification 

100

The choice and use of words in writing or speech.


Diction

100

To derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence.


Inferring 

100

Time and place of the story.


Setting

100

A type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline. Their environment may change, but they retain the same personality and outlook as they had at the beginning of the story.


Static Character

200

Brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.


Allusion

200

The repetition of the same grammatical form in two or more parts of a sentence.


Parallelism 

200

The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.


Theme

200

Interrupts the "present" line of the story to show readers a scene that unfolded in the past.


Flashback

200

Where the narrator knows everything about the events, characters, and world in the story. This narrator not only has a "God's Eye View" of the plot, they can also tell the narrative from multiple character perspectives.


3rd Point of view (Omniscient) 

300

Comparing two unlike things using like or as.


Simile

300

To describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind.


Descriptive Writing 

300

To select a passage for quoting.


Excerpt 

300

The stylistic means by which an author conveys his/her attitude(s) in a work of literature.


Tone

300

Man vs. Self, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Supernatural.


Conflict

400

A situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result.


Irony

400

Writing that exposes facts. In other words, it's writing that explains and educates its readers.


Expository Writing
400

Where the narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single protagonist, referring to them by name or using a third person pronoun such as they/she/he. The narrator can only see inside the mind of the protagonist.


3rd Point of View (Limited)

400

Uses the pronouns "I," "me," "we," and "us," in order to tell a story from the narrator's perspective.


First Person

400

Explains two things without using like or as.


Metaphor

500

The idea that things represent other things.


Symbolism

500

The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words.


Alliteration 

500

The sequence of events that shape a broader narrative, with every event causing or affecting each other.


Plot

500

A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.


Genre

500

Used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.


Foreshadow

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