Figurative Language
What is a simile?
A literary device where something non-human is given human qualities.
What is personification?
The speed and rhythm a story unfolds, how quickly or slowly the author reveals information to the reader.
What is pacing?
An educated guess made by combining evidence, observations, and prior knowledge.
What is analyze?
Comparing two unrelated things by stating one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
A literary device that includes a reference to pop-culture, religion, or literature.
What is allusion?
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy?
A specific segment taken from a larger work of literature, such as a novel, poem, or play.
The underlying message, lesson, or "big idea" of a story.
What is theme?
An exaggerated statement
Elements of a poem invokes any of the five senses to create a mental image.
What is imagery?
Two or more words/phrases in sentences that are the same grammatically and in meaning.
What is parallel?
The author's attitude toward a certain topic.
What is tone?
First-person, second-person, and third-person
The same letter or letter sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
Figurative expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal definition of its words. Ex. break a leg
What is an idiom?
Literary device where authors drop hints about plot developments to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
If point of view is the camera angle, then this is the emotional lens.
What is perspective?
Related to what is being discussed.
What is relevant?
A literary device where a word imitates the sound it represents.
What is onomatopoeia?
A group of lines within a poem, known as a paragraph in other literary works.
What is a stanza?
Something suggested by a word or a thing. Example: House suggests a structure while Home suggests warmth.
What is connotation?
A character's reason for a certain course of action.
What is motive?
The narrator is all-knowing; can access the character's thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is omniscient?