Definitions 1
Giving human qualities to objects or animals
What is personification?
Comparing two objects without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
The stale bread was as hard as a rock.
What is a simile?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
A person, place, animal or object.
What is a noun?
The pitch used to tell a story.
What is tone?
Sounds written into words.
What is an onomatopoeia?
The waves caressed her face.
What is personification?
The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
What is a plot?
Identify the verb in the following sentence:
She had run into her friend at the wrong place and time!
What is had? (It dictates time in a the sentence)
An overused saying or idea.
What is a cliche?
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
Knock! Knock! Who is there?
What is an onomatopoeia?
Alexander The Great was said to rule with an iron fist!
What is a metaphor?
This are the predominant social classes in American society.
What are lower, middle and upper class?
Gives clues that suggest what might happen in the future.
What is foreshadow?
Using a part of an object, animal or person to represent the whole.
What is a synecdoche?
She cried a river after the horrific news!
What is a hyperbole?
The highest point of story, plot, movie or play; usually the resolution of a problem.
What is the climax?
According to Joaquin de Posada, this is the key element for success:
What is the ability to delay gratification?
An expression having a special meaning different from the usual meanings of the words.
What is an idiom?
The term for all of the devices a writer uses to give the reader a better description and understanding of what is happening in the story or poem.
What is Figurative Language or Literary Devices?
An ugly win is definitely better than a pretty lose.
What is juxtaposition?
Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
What is an anadiplosis?
These are the countries where The Marshmallow experiment was conducted.
What are United States, South Korea and Colombia?