Figurative Language
A truth about life that is revealed in a story/ the main message.
What is theme?
A type of poetry with no rules.
What is free verse?
What happens in a story; the chain of events that make up a story
What is plot?
Another name for the main character for a story?
What is a protagonist?
An action word.
What is a verb?
The attitude of the writer or speaker.
What is tone?
Words that have the same ending sound.
What is rhyming?
Words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
A genre that is set in the future and based on the impact of real, potential, imagined technology.
What is science fiction?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
A single line of a poem.
What is a verse?
Using an object or word to represent an abstract idea.
What is symbolism?
The anxiety a reader feels about what may happen next in a story.
What is suspense?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective.
Hints or clues that suggest what may happen later in a story?
What is foreshadowing?
Phrases or lines of a poem that are repreated.
What is refrain?
A repetition of consonant sounds among words.
What is consonance?
What happens is the exact opposite of what we expect would happen.
What is situational irony?
A word that describes time, place, location.
What is a preposition?
The author interrupts the plot to recreate an event of earlier time.
What is a flashback?
A pair of two lines in a poem containing end rhymes.
What is a couplet?
The narrator is not in the story but focuses on one character's point of view.
What is third person limited?
A character who undergoes a deep change from within in a story.
What is dynamic characters?
Words that join sentences together such as and, but, or, because
What is a conjunction?