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The rain is as small as a mist.
What is a simile?
100
An author uses such lovely descriptions that you can almost see it for yourself!
What is imagery?
100
When a story is interrupted so a character can recall events of the past...
What is a flashback?
100
...for when dreams GO life is a barren field frozen with SNOW.
What is end rhyme?
100
The blankets are so lonely over there in the corner of the shopping mall...
What is personification?
200
My little brother is such a monster.
What is a metaphor?
200
taste, touch, sight, sound, smell
What are the five types of imagery (senses) that an author can appeal to?
200
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
What are the five parts of plot?
200
Her dusty veil is awefully pale.
What is an internal rhyme?
200
Come on, you slow computer! Work with me here!
What is an apostrophe?
300
"garments black as pitch"
What is a simile?
300
"Jumping up and Down, pounding The mush grass With my feet."
What is imagery?
300
the protagonist
What is the "good guy" or main character usually called?
300
We're cooking bones on the throne (I know, that's disgusting).
What is a slant/near rhyme?
300
Come on, Romo, let's make this pass happen! (You're not literally talking to Tony Romo).
What is an allusion?
400
"They are flutes when rolled..."
What is a metaphor?
400
I was soooo embarrased I, like, wanted to crawl in a hole and die!
What is hyperbole?
400
What the "bad guy" is called
What is the antagonist?
400
stanzas
Stories have paragraphs. What do poems have?
400
Bang! Zoom! Crash! Splat! Buuuuurp!
What is an onomatopoeia?
500
What is a simile and a metaphor?
What is using like or as to make a comparison and then simply comparing two things NOT using like or as?
500
"The yellow ribbon of butter..."
What is both imagery and metaphor?
500
personification and alliteration
"Ball hates to take bat's bait."
500
poems are quoted while novels are underlined
Explain the difference in how poems and novels are punctuated...
500
"My grandma would chat with chairs sing them old songs"
What is apostrophe and alliteration?
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