Fiction Subgenres
What is fantasy?
Splash! is an example of this literary device.
What is an Onomatopoeia?
"She had cherry red hair." This is a literary device that compares something without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
This word refers to the idea or feeling another word invokes.
What is connotation?
This word refers to a complex maze-like structure with twisting passages and hidden secrets.
What is a labyrinth?
This type of sub-genre is a story that could happen in real life, but does not.
What is Realistic Fiction?
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling compares Petunia to a crane when she writes, "Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors." This literary device is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
"Her eyes shined like stars." This literary device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This word describes another word's literal or dictionary meaning.
What is denotation?
This word can mean multiple things. It can mean the "quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information" or it can mean "the freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation."
What is discretion?
This type of sub-genre involves aliens, technology, space travel, or time travel.
What is Science Fiction?
"Stay gold, Ponyboy," is a famous line from S.E. Hinton's the Outsiders. This literary device references from a famous work (a poem, in this case).
What is allusion?
"She's Like the Wind" is a song written by the famous actor, Patrick Swayze. The title is an example of this literary device.
What is a Simile?
"That odor is unpleasant." Think about the connotation of the word "odor".
What is negative?
This word means the same thing as cautious/careful.
What is vigilant?
This type of fiction sub-genre can encourage imaginative thinking.
What is fantasy?
"Don't leave me hanging" is a type of expression that makes no sense when one says it literally. This is also a literary device.
What is an idiom?
"Stay gold, Ponyboy." is an allusion, but it is also another type of literary device.
What is a metaphor?
"I smell the scent of perfume." Think about the connotation of the word scent.
What is positive?
This means the main character of a story.
Protagonist
What is Science Fiction?
"After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow." This is an example of a descriptive literary device.
What is imagery?
"Stink, stank, stunk." This example of a literary device is from the song, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch".
What is alliteration?
The word scent means a smell. This sentence refers to the word smell's...
What is denotation?
This word means the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties
What is resilience?