Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
Figurative Language
100
A division or type of literature.
Ex. Poetry, prose, and drama.
Genre
100
The author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
100
A title at the head of a page or section of a book.
Heading
200
The repitiotion of sounds at the ends of words.
Rhyme
200
The repitition of initial consonant sounds.
Alliteration
200
A brief work of fiction.
Short Story
200
A scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past.
Flashback
200
A piece of information printed at the bottom of the page.
Footnotes
300
The use, more than once, of any element of language.
Ex. Sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence.
Repitition
300
A figure of speeech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas.
Similie
300
Prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects, or events.
Non-Fiction
300
Important information that tells about the overall idea.
Main Idea
300
A central message in a literary work.
Theme
400
A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are seperated by spaces.
Stanza
400
The use of words that imitate sounds.
Ex. Crash, buzz, screech, hiss, etc.
Onomatopoeia
400
A literary work that includes the actual political and social events and trends of the time.
Historical Fiction
400
The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next.
Plot
400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
Sensory Images
500
Poetry is one of the three major types of literature, the others being prose and drama. Most poems make use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language.
Poetry
500
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
Kind of like a similie it points out similarities of two unlike things.