Examples of Figurative Language
Which Part of Speech?
This Defines What?
Parts of the Story
Miscellaneous
100
"The night was dark like black velvet."
What is a simile!
100
Any person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun.
100
The action (in a sentence).
What is a verb?
100
This is the "turning point" of the story. The most important part of any story.
What is the climax?
100
The narrator's perspective is often called...
What is Point of View?
200
The repetition of the first consonant sounds in several words.
What is alliteration?
200
These kinds of words answer the questions "which one", "what kind" or "how many". They modify/describe nouns.
What are adjectives?
200
This is one of many ideas that any author, director, or artist is trying to communicate to the audience.
What is Author's purpose, or message.
200
This is an interruption of the normal sequence of events to tell something that happened in the past.
What is a Flashback!
200
Name Karana's Family members.
Who are: Chief Chowig, Ramo, and Ulape.
300
This term describes anything that gives the reader a sensory idea of how something smells, looks, tastes, sounds, or feels.
What is imagery?
300
These are words that tell you about the time or place of an action. "In", "at", "between" are all examples of these.
What are prepositions?
300
When a non-living things are given human-like qualities this is called...
What is personification?
300
This is what happens and how it happens in a story.
What is plot?
300
Some examples are "baseball", "novel", and "Susan".
What are antecedents?
400
The "sound" of the text. Usually the reader can tell this via the diction, formality, and point of view in a piece of writing.
What is tone?
400
These words are modifiers which answer the question: "How was it done?"
What are adverbs?
400
When a sound is written as a word, for example: "boom!" we call it...
What is onomotopoeia?
400
After the first conflict, the story truly begins. This part of the story is known as the...
What is rising action?
400
This point of view uses "he, she, and it" pronouns. It can be "limited" or "omniscient".
What is third-person.
500
In 'The Most Dangerous Game', this is "Never underestimate your competition, it may lead to your downfall."
What is theme.
500
These are acts that happen but we can not see, such as "understand", "think", and "believe".
What are non-action verbs?
500
Any detail that tells you more about a person or their motives (in a story) is called...
What is characterization?
500
In this part of the story, many of the important questions start to get answered.
What is the falling action?
500
What three forms of figurative language are used in this sentence: "The sea licked its greedy lips."
What are personification, metaphor, and alliteration?
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