The compares two different objects. The purpose is to paint a picture with words that show their similarities. They have like and as between the comparison.
What is simile?
100
The most important idea expressed in a piece of literature.
What is main idea?
100
A scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event
What is flashback?
100
The perspective from which an author tells the story
What is point of view?
200
A story, novel, or play about imagined people or events.
What is fiction?
200
These compare two objects by talking about one as if it were the other.
What is metaphor?
200
The message of a piece of literature
What is theme?
200
A scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event.
What is flashback?
200
The teller of the story
What is narrator?
300
Any type of literature that deals with real people and events
What is nonfiction?
300
An object, action, person, or situation that stands for something else.
What is symbol?
300
The time and place in which the events of a story occur.
What is setting?
300
The overall feeling created by a work of literature
What is mood?
300
When the narrator of the story is one of the characters.
What is first person point of view?
400
A fictional story that is shorter than a novel
What is a short story?
400
A way an author creates a picture by giving a nonliving object the qualities of a living thing.
What is personification?
400
The reason why an author writes a piece of literature
What is author's purpose?
400
The opposite of what would be naturally expected.
What is ironic or irony?
400
When a character of a story is outside the story and an observer of the action.
What is third person point of view?
500
A type of literature
What is genre?
500
A phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it.
What is an idiom?
500
A struggle between opposing characters or forces.
What is conflict?
500
The anxious curiosity the reader feels about what will happen next.