Dr. Seuss
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 like 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 dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
When an author uses an object to stand for an idea.
What is symbolism?
A writer should always be aware of these two things BEFORE writing.
What are audience and purpose?
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 like Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Society.
What is external conflict?
The emotion associated with a word, when a word is not meant to be taken literally.
What is connotation?
The arrangement of events in the order in which they happened.
What is chronological order?
A story written about a person’s life by another person.
What is biography?
The information you as a person know about a particular subject plus additional clues from the text.
What is an inference?
A story that is basically made up rather than actually being true.
What is fiction?
A reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or idea in literature.
What is an allusion?
The main idea or message of a literary work.
What is theme?
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 character?
A character in literature who opposes or goes against the main character.
What is antagonist?
Expressions that are not literally true. They create fresh and original descriptions.
What is figurative language?
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. AND The reason or cause that a character behaves a certain way.
What is plot?