Figurative Language
Parts of a Story
The Reader
The Author
100
Repetition of a single consonant letter in the alphabet.
What is alliteration
100
Main idea, moral, or message in apiece of writing.
What is theme
100
How are items are alike
What is compare
100
Someone who tells the story
What is narrator
200
Giving human characteristics to inanimate/non-human objects.
What is personification
200
Conflict is resolved. the end of the story.
What is resolution
200
How items are different
What is contrast
200
Perspective from which the story is told
What is point of view
300
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300
Time character works to resolve the problem
What is rising action
300
What makes something happen
What is cause
300
Uses "I", "me", and "my." Usually the main character
What is first person
400
Groups of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary meaning of the words.
What is idiom
400
Events that occur after the climax and the loose ends are being tied up and before the end of the story
What is falling action
400
What happens because of something that occurred/happened
What is effect
400
Narrator directly refers to the reader as "you"
What is second person
500
Sound words that refer to the thing it is describing.
What is onomatopoeia
500
Introduces important background information to the reader: information about the setting, events occurring before the main plot, characters, and etc.
What is exposition
500
Relationship between two words
What is analogy
500
Reason the author writes: to share a story, inform the reader, or argue
What is author's purpose
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