Figurative Language
Hodgepodge
Literary Elements
Literary Terms
Grab Bag
100
A comparison without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
100
Giving something that is not human characteristics of humans.
What is personification?
100
The lesson in a story
What is the theme?
100
A form of language that is associated with a particular geographical area or social group.
What is dialect?
100
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
200
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
200
The feelings and emotions associated with a word
What is connotation?
200
The problem in a story
What is conflict?
200
Clues about what is going to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
A personal way of understanding or interpreting something.
What is perception?
300
An extreme exgaggeration - EX. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole
300
The main point of a passage
What is central (main) idea?
300
the most exciting part of a story
What is the climax?
300
An author's statement used to support or prove an argument.
What is an author's claim?
300
The author's attitude about a subject.
What is an tone?
400
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in literature that is typically used to enhance the rhythm of a poem.
What is alliteration?
400
The feeling a work of literature produces in a reader.
What is mood?
400
Leads up to the climax; where the action starts to increase...
What is rising action?
400
One of the types of point-of-view: the narrator is a character in the story
What is first person?
400
a type of poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
500
a familiar phrase that does not mean what it says literally. Example: it's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom
500
To stop, or prevent something from happening is to _____.
What is hinder?
500
The characters are introduced and the setting is established in this part of a story.
What is the exposition?
500
a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural or literary importance.
What is an allusion
500
to examine something closely for meaning
What is analyze?
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