Language Technique
A comparison using the words like or as.
What is a Simile?
Giving human characteristics to animals or some other lifeless object.
What is Personification?
The category system that literature falls into based on specific conventions that develop to characterize the difference.
What is Genre?
Name the technique;
He has a face like a punching bag
Simile
What type of sentence is this;
The birds sang.
Simple
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a Metaphor?
Word that describes words that represent sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The story teller, or tells the story in either first, second, or third person.
What is Narrator?
Name the technique;
The moon was a lost stranger wandering across the sky
Personification
A compound sentence is made up of two or more
________ _________ joined by a coordinating conjunction.
simple sentences
Writer's vivid description that helps readers visualize what is happening in a story.
What is Imagery?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is Point of View?
A comparison between two things that is elaborated and continued throughout a major part or entire body of a text.
What is an extended metaphor?
It was an epic mission.
What part of speech is 'epic'?
Adjective
A complex sentence has one simple sentence, a subordinating conjunction (since, until, etc) and at least one ___________.
Subordinating conjunction
This device allows writers to show their audience specific events that happened before the current action of the story.
What is Flashback?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is Alliteration?
A feeling of excitement, curiosity, or expectation about what will happen.
What us Suspense?
Name the technique;
This weekend at the beach will be a ball.
Metaphor
Simple, compound or complex?
She screamed and screamed but no help came?
compound
This device is used when the author hints at actions that will come in the future.
What is Foreshadowing?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
The most exciting part of a story where all of the main conflict comes together.
What is Climax?
What is name of the technique when a 's' sound is repeated?
Sibilance
Simple, compound or complex?
When the fruit is ripe, we can call in the pickers and begin the harvest
Complex