Figurative Language
Story Elements
Propaganda
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Grub Bag
100
Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions.
What is Imagery
100
This is the turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is at its most intense.
What is Climax
100
This is a form of propaganda that is an attack on a person instead of an issue.
What is Name‐calling
100
In its widest sense, dialogue is simply conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work; in its most restricted sense, it refers specifically to the speech of characters in a drama.
What is Dialogue
100
An organizational device used in literature to present action that occurred before current (present) time of the story.
What is Flashback
200
A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g., The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah.)
What is Simile
200
This is the time and place in which a story unfolds.
What is setting
200
This tries to persuade the reader to do, think or buy something because it is popular or because “everyone” is doing it.
What is Bandwagon
200
This is an extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others or as if alone.
What is Monologue
200
One or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning, end, or base of a word and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form (e.g., a prefix or suffix).
What is Affix
300
An exaggeration or overstatement (e.g., I had to wait forever.)
What is Hyperbole
300
The part of a literary plot that is characterized by diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plot’s conflicts and complications.
What is Falling action
300
This makes an oversimplified statement about a group based on limited information.
What is Sweeping Generalization (Stereotyping)
300
A playwright’s written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move andbehave in a play is this..
What is Stage Direction
300
This is the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is Syntax
400
The comparison of two unlike things in which no words of comparison (like or as) are used (e.g., The speech gave me food for thought.)
What is Metaphor
400
This is the attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject or the work itself
What is Tone
400
In this form of propaganda, a conclusion is stated as part of the proof of the argument.
What is Circular argument
400
A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage.
What is Soliloquy
400
This is a literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.
What is Satire
500
A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy.
What is Allegory
500
The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits and personalities (e.g., direct, indirect) is this...
What is Characterization
500
This is an attempt to distract the reader with details not relevant to the argument
What is Red Herring
500
A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.
What is Satire
500
The portion of a story following the climax in which the conflict is resolved
What is Resolution
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