Figurative Lang
Meter / Sound
Tone
Freytag's Pyramid
Random
100
A comparison between two things that uses like or as
What is simile?
100
What do you call it when two words sound the same?
What is rhyme
100
A technique an author uses to create suspense by giving clues about things that will happen later in a story
What is foreshadowing
100
What is the most exciting part of a story?
What is the climax
100
"My mother is going to kill me when she sees this report card." The above sentence is most likely an example of what literary device?
What is hyperbole
200
A comparison between two things that does not use like or as.
What is metaphor
200
This is what we call the sound of the words. It can also be described as the flow of the words
What is rhythm
200
This is when the opposite happens from what is expected.
What is irony
200
What do we call the sequence of events in a story
What is the plot
200
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. The above sentence is an example of what literary device?
What is alliteration
300
A metaphor that is well known to a specific culture or a group of people
What is idiom
300
When a word sounds like what it is describing, we call that
What is onomatopoeia
300
The type of irony in which a person says something different from that which the listener understands
What is verbal irony
300
An emotional problem, or any other problem that happens inside of one character is called a(n)
What is internal conflict
300
When Mrs. Elmore speaks to her computer, she is not crazy... she is demonstrating which literary device?
What is apostrophe
400
When an author or poet describes a non human thing in a human like way
What is personification.
400
A rhyme scheme is always listed or written using
What are letters?
400
This is the type of irony where the audience, or the reader, knows something that the characters don't know
What is dramatic irony
400
Another word for the introduction of a story is
What is the exposition
400
The boy who cried wolf is an example of what type of a story?
What is a parable
500
When an author uses a part of something to speak about the whole. Lend me your ears. He has twelve head of cattle.
What is metonymy
500
Shakespeare always wrote in this meter
What is iambic pentameter
500
This is what you call it when a person imitates something in order to make fun of it.
What is parody.
500
The very last part of a story is the
What is resolution
500
What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet?
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