Magic Carpet
A figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. These things usually have something in common. A comparison between two seemingly unlike things where one thing is talked about as another thing.
What is metaphor?
A struggle with an internal force…Man vs. Self. The conflict is emotional.
What is internal conflict?
Appeals to the senses. It is written so that the reader can literally hear, feel, taste, touch, smell, see what the author is describing.
What is sensory language/imagery?
A figure of speech that compares things using like or as.
What is simile?
The use of any element of language more than once. It could take place with a sound, word, phrase, or grammatical structure. It is used to stress important ideas and feelings, and to create memorable sound effects.
What is repetition?
A contrast between expectation and reality. Verbal involves a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant. Situational occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen. Dramatic occurs when the audience or readers know something the characters in the book do not know.
What is irony?
A struggle between two forces.
What is conflict?
The thought you have by using clues from a text about something that is not obviously stated.
What is an inference?
When an author uses an object to stand for an idea.
What is symbolism?
A long fictional story whose length is usually somewhere between 100 and 500 pages. It uses all the elements of storytelling: plot, character, setting, theme, and point of view.
What is novel?
A figure of speech in which non human things (an idea, object, or animal) are given human characteristics. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes
What is personification?
A struggle with outside forces…three types: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Society
What is external conflict?
When an author uses a sound word: bang, crash, boom.
What is onomatopoeia?
Arrangement of events in the order in which they happened.
What is chronological order?
A story written about a person’s life, but it is written by another person.
What is biography?
The very beginning information in a story. Where we learn the setting, characters, conflict, etc.
What is the exposition?
A prose account that is basically made up rather than actually being true
What is fiction?
When the main character of the story is the person telling the story. The point of view is this.
What is First Person?
A lesson that is learned at the end of reading.
What is moral?
The recurrence of initial consonant sound. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
What is alliteration?
A person, animal, or inanimate object in a story, play, or other literary work.
What is a character?
A character in literature who opposes, or goes against, the main character.
What is antagonist?
A statement that uses extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
The one telling the story.
What is narrator?
The series of related events that make up a story…the introduction is known as exposition, the complications are known as rising action, the most exciting part is known as climax, the beginning of resolving the problems is known as falling action, and when the problems are solved or the story is closed, this is known as the resolution.
What is plot?