Simile,
Metaphor,
Personificatio
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Main idea
Symbolism
Literary Terms
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100

Giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing.

What is personification?

100

The term for what a text is mainly about

What is an main idea?

100

Includes a plot, setting, and characters. This poem tells a story.

What is a narrative poem?

100

The voice that talks to the reader in the poem.

What is the speaker?

100

The name of Ms. Paley's lil baby.

BABY NICK!

200

A comparison of two things using like or as.

What is a simile?

200

The moral or lesson in a story/poem.

What is theme?

200

Roses could symbolize.....

What is a love/romance?

200

The meaning, message, or moral of the piece of literature.

What is theme?

200

Lines of poetry grouped together.

What are stanzas?

300

The tornado swallowed the neighborhood.

What is personification?

300

The "heart" of a story or poem, the thing that makes people take action

What is an inferred main idea?(not stated directly in text) 

300

Butterflies can symbolize

tranformation?

300

When a writer helps the reader create mental pictures of the words read.

What is imagery?

300

The speaker of a poem is always the author. True or False

What is false?

400

Mr. Derby coiled the whip like a snake.

What is a simile?

400

Interacting with a text.  The root word INTER - means...

What is use or between?

400

a sharp corner could symbolize?

Hard times or instant pain

400

A person, a place, an object, or action that stands for something beyond itself. When a teenager grows a moustache, it may respresent becoming a man.

What is a symbol?

400

A feeling that a literary work gives to the reader. For example, "We Crouch in Caves," may have made you feel sad or hopeful.

What is mood?

500

Pat Benatar once sang, "love is a battlefield."

What is a metaphor?

500

Main idea is found when we look/ask... 

Who

What

when

how 

and why?

500

A snake can symbolize

being sneaky

500

The writer's attitude toward his or her subject. Martin Luther King Jr.'s attitude towards his famous "I Have A Dream Speech," could be hopeful.

What is tone?

500

Expressions that are not literally true-to create original descriptions. These expressions make literature more interesting and fulfilling.

What is figurative Language?

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