Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The beginning of a story, including the characters and setting.
What is the exposition?
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
The problem that makes the story interesting.
What is the conflict?
An educated guess using knowledge from the text and your own life experiences.
What is an inference?
This is a comparison where the author states that something is something else (not using "like" or "as").
What is a metaphor?
Events that build suspense and increase interest in the story.
What is rising action?
A narrative told from the perspective of a character in the story, using "I" or "we" language.
What is first person point of view?
The time and place of the story.
What is the setting?
The use of clues to hint at what will occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
What is personification?
The point of greatest suspense and intensity; usually near the end of the story.
What is the climax?
A narrative told about the listener/reader to that person, using "you" language.
What is second person point of view?
These are the people/animals/things that take part in the story’s action.
What are the characters?
The opponent/rival of the hero.
What is the antagonist?
A word or phrase that combines two things that are opposites, but makes sense in context.
What is an oxymoron?
The events that wrap up a story.
What is the falling action?
When the narrator is outside the story and only sees events through the eyes of one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
This is the central idea in the story; the author’s meaning for the story.
What is theme?
This is the attitude the author takes toward a particular subject.
What is tone?
A word or phrase that sounds like the thing it is describing (e.g. buzz, pow, bang).
What is onomatopoeia?
How the story ends and the conflict is solved.
What is the resolution?
When the narrator is outside the story but knows the emotions, motives, and actions of all the characters in the story.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
The overall feeling a work evokes in the reader.
What is mood?
A scene in a story that goes back in time to give more information.
What is a flashback?