Figurative it out
Literary Terms
Exam Tasks
Terms TOO
Terms TOO Two
100
The way an author describes something or creates a feeling using comparison and indirect descriptions
What is figurative language?
100
The way an author describes a character, can be direct or indirect.
What is characterization?
100
This is the most important point of a piece of writing.
What is the central idea?
100
A feeling of dread or "WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?" that creates interest in writing.
What is suspense?
100
A title at the top of a piece of writing, or above a section of a text.
What is a heading?
200
An expression that means something TOTALLY different than the words literally mean.
What is an idiom?
200
The character that tells what is happening in a story.
What is the narrator?
200
These are the main components of the plot of a story.
What are rising action, climax, and falling action?
200
The overall FEELING of a piece of writing (i.e. gloomy, happy, scary, etc.)
What is tone?
200
When the result of something is the opposite of the expected.
What is irony?
300
A string of words that all begin with the same sound.
What is alliteration?
300
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
300
This is needed in the following sentence: "First I'd like to thank the Academy for giving me this award."
What is a comma?
300
The place and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
300
Stealing words, ideas, or writing organization from another writer, increasing punishments as you ascend the educational world.
What is plagiarism?
400
An extreme exaggeration used for effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
The most exciting part of a story in which the main problem of the story is resolved.
What is the climax?
400
A detail that is used to support a claim about a piece of writing.
What is evidence?
400
The main problem that the protagonist has to deal with in a story.
What is the conflict?
400
The category of a piece of writing (i.e. Fiction, biography, nonfiction, fantasy, science fiction, mystery).
What is genre?
500
Giving a non-human thing human like qualities to describe something about it.
What is personification?
500
A hint the author uses that predicts what will happen next, usually something bad.
What is foreshadowing?
500
This is the person or thing that causes most of the conflict for the protagonist in a story.
What is the antagonist?
500
An educated guess about what will happen next in a story, or as a result of something you know.
What is an inference?
500
Hints about the meaning of a word, oftentimes found by looking for the FANBOYS.
What are context clues?
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