Terms
Part 1
Part 1
a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
a comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
giving hints/clues that something is going to happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
My hair is a vast forest of climbing vines.
What is metaphor?
Don't judge a book by it's cover.
What is "You can't base your opinion on appearances alone."
giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea
What is personification?
imitating the sounds with the objects or actions they refer to
What is onomatopoeia?
What is symbolism?
What is alliteration?
She's being a couch potato today.
What is "she is being lazy."
What is oxymoron?
a great exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
this type of writing tells a story
What is a narrative?
When my baseball broke the neighbor's window, I ran away like a chicken.
What is simile?
I would be in hot water if I came home late.
What is "I would be in trouble."
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
A figure of speech where the phrase is understood to mean something different from that of the individual words.
What is idiom?
a situation in which something which was supposed to have an intended result has the opposite result
What is irony?
She was so tired she could have slept for a year.
What is hyperbole?
I was waiting on pins and needles for the phone call.
What is "I was really excited."
repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words, phrases, or syllables
What is assonance?
a transition in a story to an earlier time that interrupts the chronological order of events
What is flashback?
an expression used in the text to reference a person, place, or event from some other context
What is allusion?
boom, crack, pow
What is onomatopoeia?
Allen got cold feet when he was going to ask Serenity to marry him.
What is "got too nervous."