Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The main character in a story
What is a protagonist?
The sequence of events in a story
What is a plot?
The feeling or atmosphere created in a text
What is mood?
The opposite of the antagonist
What is a protagonist?
Giving human traits to non-human things
What is a personification?
The entity that tells a story from "I"-perspective
What is a first-person narrator?
The time and place when and where the story unfolds
What is setting?
When the narrator hints at events to come
What is foreshadowing?
A device that makes something seem alive when it isn't
What is personification?
A comparison that does not use "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
A narrator who knows all characters' thoughts and feelings
What is an omniscient narrator?
What is repetition?
The tension or excitement a reader feels about what will happen
What is suspense?
An adjective to describe a book you can't stop reading
What is unputdownable?
A deliberate exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
The term to describe a type of narration, such as mystery, romance, science fiction
What is a genre?
Using the same grammatical structure in a series
What is parallelism?
A story that is so exciting that readers can't stop reading
What is a page-turner?
The device used in the following sentence: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
The repetition of initial sounds
What is alliteration?
A story that makes readers cry easily
What is a tear-jerker?
Repeating words at the beginning of successive sentences or lines
What is anaphora?
When two opposing ideas are placed together for effect
What is contrast?
A story long enough to fill a complete book
What is a novel?