Figurative Language Terms
Story Elements
Poetry
Figurative Language Examples
Other
100
A direct comparison, using like or as, between two things that are unlike in most ways but appear to be alike in one way
What is a simile
100
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting.
100
A "paragraph" in a poem.
What is a stanza.
100
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
What is a simile.
100
This is a different word that has the same meaning.
What is an antonym
200
Giving human qualities to an idea, an object or an experience.
What is personification
200
A problem in the story that needs to be resolved
What is the coflict
200
An example of this would be: abba
What is rhyme scheme
200
This a different word that has the opposite meaning.
What is an antonym
300
An indirect comparison between two unlike things with common elements
What is a metaphor
300
The position of the narrator of the story and what the writer sees from that vantage point.
What is point of view
300
A Japanese poem that consists of 3 lines with 5, 7 and 5 syllables
What is a Haiku
300
"Screech, CRASH!" the sound of the cars colliding filled me with a sense of dread.
What is onomatopoeia
300
These are two words that sound the same but have different meanings and are spelt differently
What is a homynym
400
The repeated use of the initial letter in two or more words in a sentence
What is alliteration
400
The story's main idea. The "message" that the author is trying to convey.
What is theme
400
Writing with detail that arouses the senses.
What is imagery.
400
She sells seashells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration.
500
An extravagent and intentional exaggeration for dramatic effect.
What is a hyperbole.
500
The feeling that a piece of writing produces in the reader
What is mood
500
Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise" was studied as an example of this.
What is repetition
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