Figurative Language
Story Elements
The prefix "auto"
Text Structures
Know Your Poetry
100
An exaggeration, to prove a point about something. Example: "I'm so hungry, I could eat an elephant!"
What is hyperbole?
100
The events that happen in a story.
What is plot?
100
Something that happens on its own without extra help.
What is automatic?
100
In this structure, all events are communicated the order in which they happened (also known as time order).
What is chronological order?
100
In poetry, this is what we call each group of lines (similar to a paragraph in a narrative).
What is a stanza?
200
A direct comparison between two objects. Example: "Her smile is a summer breeze."
What is a metaphor?
200
The people who take part in the actions of a story.
What are characters?
200
A signature that is unique to one person.
What is an autograph?
200
In this structure, events or ideas may be presented in conflict with one another.
What is compare and contrast?
200
Examples like AA-BB, CC-DD or ABAB, CDCD represent this term. Hint: Think about those stories you may have heard in the nursery!
What is rhyme or rhyme scheme.
300
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects. Example: "The wind sang through the trees."
What is personification?
300
The problem that the main character(s) encounter. Hint: It may be internal or external.
What is conflict?
300
A book written about a person's own life. =
What is an autobiography?
300
In this structure, events or ideas are presented to show why they happened and the impact of them happening.
What is cause and effect?
300
This is the minimum number of times readers should read a poem in order to gain maximum understanding.
What is three?
400
A comparison between two objects using like or as. Example: "It's as easy as pie!"
What is a simile?
400
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
400
A machine that can move itself without being pushed or pulled.
What is an automobile?
400
In this structure, usually a conflict or difficult issue is presented, followed by possible fixes to that problem.
What is problem-solution?
400
When an author repeats the sound at the beginning of a series of words. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
500
A phrase or expression with a figurative meaning. Example: "It's raining cats and dogs!"
What is an idiom?
500
The solving or ending of the story's main problem.
What is the resolution?
500
The immune response of an organism against any of its own tissues or cells.
What is autoimmune?
500
In this structure, ideas or events are presented in the exact reverse order of how they actually took place.
What is reverse-chronological order?
500
A pair of two rhyming lines.
What is a couplet?
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