portion of the story that introduces the setting and background information
What is the exposition?
100
Sally was like a snake.
What is an example of a simile. * A simile is comparing something to another thing using like or as.
100
where one of the characters narrates the story
What is first person point of view?
200
The hero of a story, usually the main character.
What is a protagonist?
200
Not rhymed verse of a poem that doesn't contain a metrical pattern
What is a free verse?
200
A series of incidents build toward the main part of the story
What is the rising action?
200
It's raining cats and dogs
What is an example of an idiom? * According to Webster's Dictionary, an idiom is defined as: peculiar to itself either grammatically or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements.
200
Where the author uses pronouns such as he and she.
What is third person point of veiw?
300
the opposite of a protagonist
What is the antagonist?
300
a unit of any given length of a poem
What is a stanza?
300
turning point of the story
What is the climax?
300
You are what you eat
What is an example of a metaphor. * A metaphor is saying that you are something.
300
Where the character is the narrator and knows the thoughts of the other characters
What is Third person omniscient point of view?
400
The way a character talks or sounds.
What is dialect?
400
A lengthy narrative poem
What is an epic?
400
The part of the story where the protagonist and the antagonist start to win or loose.
What is the falling action?
400
The dog was talking to me
What is an example of personification? * Personification is where a human's traits are given to an animal.
400
Comparing two things to another two things
What is an analogy?
500
A character that contracts with another character
What is a foil?
500
a pair of lines of a meter poem
What is a couplet?
500
The two words that mean the same and are the endings or final parts of a poem, book, short story, ect........(2)
What are denouncements and resolutions?
500
Crack! The boys feet were the size of elephants(2)
What are examples of hyperbole's and onomatopoeia's? *An onomatopoeia is a noise spelled out/ A hyperbole is an exaggeration that no one would believe.