PARTS OF A STORY
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
POETIC LANGUAGE
LITERARY TECHNIQUES
ALL THAT!
100
The most intense point of a story.
What is the climax of a story?
100
Words or phrases used to create pictures in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
100
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
The method an author uses to describe the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
100
The time, place, and environment that a story takes place.
What is setting?
200
The final outcome of a story.
What is the resolution of a story?
200
The use of words to suggest a sound like "buzz"
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A comparison between two things without saying "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
200
A reference to another well-known piece of literature, play, person, or event.
What is an allusion?
200
A character who is contrasted by another character.
What is foil?
300
Provides background information on characters and setting.
What is the exposition?
300
A combination of contradictory terms.
What is an oxymoron
300
The feeling a reader gets when reading literature.
What is mood?
300
The problem or struggle in a story.
What is conflict?
300
The implied statement about life demonstrated through the characters' actions.
What is theme?
400
The action that occurs after the climax.
What is falling action?
400
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
400
A phrase that compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
400
When a story goes back to an earlier time to make things in the present more clear.
What is flashback?
400
Using a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its literal meaning.
What is irony?
500
A series of conflicts that lead to the climax of a story.
What is rising action?
500
A person, place, or thing that represents something else.
What is symbolism (a symbol)?
500
A monologue delivered by a character when alone on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
500
Giving hints to what may happen later in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
500
Placing two ideas, settings, words, or pictures side by side to create a new ironic meaning.
What is juxtaposition?
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