Unit 3
Unit 3
Figurative literature terms
Figurative literature terms
literature terms
100
word part that means many
What is poly?
100
word part that means hear
What is aud?
100
literary term that has to do with exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
100
appeals to the reader's senses
What is imagery?
100
emotions you feel while you are reading a selection or story
What is mood?
200
word part that means touch
What is tact?
200
word part that means blood
What is hem, hemo?
200
what compares things using like or as
What is a simile?
200
Compares things using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
leading character in a play or story
What is a protagonist?
300
word part that means move, yield, go, surrender
What is ced, ceed?
300
neo, nov
What word part means new?
300
a verse or phrase repeated at intervals
What is a refrain?
300
when human qualities are given to an inanimate object
What is personification?
300
character in a story that is an adversary, oppositional
What is an antagonist?
400
word part that means half, less than
What is demi, semi or hemi?
400
word part that means city
What is urb?
400
words whose sounds suggest what their meanings
What is onomatopoeia?
400
language that cannot an should not be interpreted exactly as it is said
What is an idiom?
400
the most important, intense, exciting part of a story/plot
What is climax?
500
word part that means keen, sharp, unpleasantly bitter
What is ac, acr?
500
word part that means science
What is logy?
500
words that rhyme at the end of lines of poetry
What is a rhyme scheme?
500
giving animate objects (such as animals) human characteristics
What is anthropomorphism?
500
main events of a story or play
What is a plot?
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