Basic Figurative Language
Giving human Characteristics to an animal or object
What is Personification?
An imitation of something for comic effect.
What is Parody?
A form of literature that expresses ideas and emotions in stanzas.
What is poetry?
The authors attitude toward the subject or audience.
What is Tone?
A type of literature with a common set of characteristics.
What is Genre?
A comparison between two like things using “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
A warning/Indication of a future event.
Each bunch of sentences in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
The central character in a work of literature.
A question you ask yourself or someone that you know the answer to.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
The use of words that sound similar for human effect.
What is a pun?
The feeling that a work of literature creates on the reader.
What is mood?
What is climax?
Words which mean the opposite of their literal meaning.
What is Irony?
Descriptions that help the reader form a mental picture.
What is Imagery?
A phrase that has lost meaning due to overuse and unoriginality.
What is a Cliché?
A line in verse which ends with punctuation, either to show the completion of a phrase or sentence.
What is an end-stopped line?
The major idea or message in a work of literature.
What is Theme?
A scene set in a time before the main story.
What is a flashback?
An expression with a non-literal meaning.
What is an Idiom?
A word or phrase that reads the same forward and backwards.
What is Palindrome?
The arrangement of rhymes in a stanza.
What is Rhyme Stanza?
A sequence of events involving characteristics to an animal or object.
What is plot?
The Narrator is not a character and is limited to telling what one character thinks, feels, and observes.
What is 3rd person Limited?