Go clean it up!
Do you get it?
LISTEN to me!
Can you feel it?
Oh! That's what you mean?
100
What are the three main types of Author's Purpose
Persuade Inform Entertain
100
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without the use of "like" or "as".
What is a METAPHOR?
100
Lesson taught by a literary work.
What is a MORAL?
100
Mood or feeling created in the reader by the literary passage.
What is ATMOSPHERE?
100
anything that represents itself and stands for something else.
What is a SYMBOL?
200
Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid
Figurative Language
200
A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare to unlike things.
What is a SIMILE?
200
Writing that tells a story.
What is NARRATION?
200
Feeling of growing uncertainty about the outcome of events
What is SUSPENCE?
200
Interuption of the plot sequence to recount an event from an earlier time?
What is a FLASHBACK?
300
A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
What is HYPERBOLE?
300
Difference between appearance and reality. Expecting on thing but getting something else
What is IRONY?
300
Monologue in drama, addressed only to to the audience
What is SILILOQUY?
300
Writing or speech appealing to one or more of the senses
What is SENSORY LANGUAGE?
300
Use of clues to suggest events yet to occur
What is FORESHADOWING?
400
A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.
What is onomatopoeia ?
400
A literary work that pokes fun at individual or society weaknesses.
What is SATIRE?
400
Person who says the words of a poem, not to be confused with the author of the work
Who is the SPEAKER?
400
Reason that explains why a character thinks, feels, believes, or behaves in a certain way
What is MOTIVATION?
400
Brief story about an interesting event
What is an ANECDOTE?
500
a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox.
What is OXYMORON?
500
diffence between what a word or phrase means in a story and what it ordinarily means
What is VERBAL IRONY?
500
Information in a play about costumes, lighting, scenerey, setting or characters' movements, speech, and motivations
What are STAGE DIRECTIONS?
500
Descriptive language used to reflect and re-create things that can be heard, felt, seen, tasted, or smelled
What is SENSORY LANGUAGE?
500
The implied meaning of a word
What is CONNOTATION?
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