Plot
The counterpart to the main character and source of a story’s main conflict. The person may not be “bad” or “evil” by any conventional moral standard, but he/she opposes the protagonist in a significant way.
What is Antagonist
Where inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human self-awareness; where human thoughts, actions, perceptions and emotions are directly attributed to inanimate objects or ideas.
What is Personification
a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba
A limerick
That candy is _______.
Theirs
Person, place or thing
noun
Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested by the author before they happen
What is Foreshadowing
A direct relationship where one thing or idea substitutes for another. A comparison.
What is Metaphor
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
A haiku
________ coming to the party.
They're
An action word
A verb
The turning point in a story, at which the end result becomes inevitable, usually where something suddenly goes terribly wrong; the “dramatic high point” of a story
What is the Climax
A description which exaggerates, usually employing extremes and/or superlative to convey a positive or negative attribute.
What is a hyperbole
the name given to poetry that doesn't use any strict meter or rhyme scheme.
Free verse
Laila can come ____.
too
Describes a noun
An adjective
A struggle between opposing forces which is the driving force of a story.
What is conflict
Where sounds are spelled out as words, or when words describing sounds actually sound like the sounds they describe.
What is an Onomatopoeia
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
A stanza
The ________ notes were for the students.
teacher's
Describes an adjective, adverb or a verb
An adverb
A device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction
Antecedent action
The use of specific objects or images to represent abstract ideas.
What is imagery
poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices
Concrete poem
There are ______ pencils on the floor.
many
It takes the place of a noun
A pronoun