The literary term for a person or animal in a story.
What is character?
100
"Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of:
What is alliteration?
100
"Her hair was as black as night"- this is an example of:
What is simile?
100
Jonathan felt the material of his father's uniform gently. What is the adverb and what it is it modifying?
What is gently and felt?
100
This is the author's feelings toward his or her subject.
What is tone?
200
Where a story takes place- both physically and chronologically.
What is setting?
200
"If you are a dreamer, come in, if you are are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er"- The repetition of the "r" sound example of what sound device?
What is consonance?
200
"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear."
This is a simile, but also this other type of figurative language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
200
She chided him as he peered through the velvety blackness of night. What is the adjective and what is it modifying?
What is velvety and blackness?
200
This is the way that a piece of literature makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
300
This is the main idea or message that the author conveys with their writing. Every story or poem has one!
What is theme?
300
The repeating of end sounds of words is called:
What is rhyme?
300
"So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." There is an ________ in this poem.
What is Allusion?
300
The edge of the key felt sharp. What is the adjective and what is it modifying?
What is sharp & key?
300
If you are reading something and using clues in the text to help yourself understand it and think about it deeply, what are you doing?
What is making inferences?
400
Any person, place, or object that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
400
It hushes/it shushes/ it flitter-twitters/ and whitely whirs away. This is an example of what sounds devices? Give at least two and explain your answer.
What is onomatopoeia, consonance, assonance, alliteration, rhyme.
400
"Thy eternal summer shall not fade" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a metaphor?
400
The author drew his inspiration mostly from a manual. What is the adverb and what is it modifying?
What is mostly & drew?
400
When Billy notices that there were no coats at the landlady's house and she told him he had nice teeth, these were examples of what?
What is foreshadowing?
500
There are two basic types on conflict. What are they?
What are internal and external?
500
The bells "jingling and tinkling" is an example of what TWO sound devices?
What are assonance and onomatopoeia?
500
"In the spring, I asked the daisies if his words were true/
and the clever-clear eyed daisies always knew," This is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
500
"The boy looked quickly through the papers." What is the adverb and what is it modifying?
What are quickly and looked?
500
If you are reading a story told from the perspective of a story's hero, what is that perspective called? Also, what is another name for the hero of a story?