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The author goes back in time to re-live memories or events of a character.
What is a Flashback?
100
The time and place of a story.
What is Setting?
100
Comparing one unlike thing to another to describe it using like or as.
What is a Simile?
100
the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.
What is rising action?
100
a comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison is used.
What is metaphor?
200
A great exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
200
The villain of the story or the bad guy.
What is an antagonist?
200
The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
the portion of the story where the problem is solved.
What is resolution?
200
a category or type of literature based on its style, form, and content.
What is genre?
300
The feeling the reader has when reading a passage.
What is mood?
300
The hero or usually main character of the story.
What is the protagonist?
300
The problem in the story.
What is conflict?
300
the vantage point from which the story is told
What is point of view?
300
using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of is literal or normal meaning.
What is irony?
400
The attitude the author has towards the subject. The overall feeling, or effect, created by a writer's use of words.
What is Tone?
400
The idea about life revealed in a work of literature.
What is Theme?
400
The events that happen in a story.
What is Plot?
400
a literary device used to create a special effect or feeling by making some type of interesting or creative comparison.
What is figurative Language?
400
the words or phrases a writer selects to create a certain picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
500
Speech between characters.
What is Dialogue?
500
Giving an inanimate object or animal human characteristics.
What is personification?
500
Words that describe what they sound like.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
the high point, or turning point, in a story-usually the most intense point.
What is the climax?
500
a traditional story that attempts to explain a natural phenomenon or justify a certain practice or belief of a society.
What is Myth?
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