Figurative Langauge
This type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two different things.
What is a simile?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This type of conflict is a struggle between two characters or between a character and an outside force.
What is external?
This part of the plot diagram introduces the story, characters, and setting.
What is the exposition?
This author's purpose is to convince the reader of his or her point of view. Ex- opinion essays, ads, editorials
What is to persuade?
An example of this type of figurative language is: The inside of the car was a refrigerator.
What is a metaphor?
I, me, he, she, it, they- are examples of this part of speech.
What are pronouns?
What is protagonist?
This part of the plot diagram introduces the main conflict.
What is the rising action?
This term means a contrast or contradiction between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to something nonhuman. Ex- The brown grass begged for water.
What is personification?
The young girl walked happily to the new park with her brown dog. -Which word in the sentence is the verb?
What is walked?
This type of conflict is a struggle within the mind of a character.
What is internal conflict?
This part of the plot diagram is the most exciting moment in the plot, when the conflict is the most intense.
What is the climax?
The use of clues to hint at an event that will occur later in the narrative.
What is foreshadowing?
What is imagery?
The young girl walked happily to the new park with her brown dog. -Which word in the sentence is the adverb?
What is happily?
This type of conflict is when a character struggles with forces like the weather, wilderness, or a disaster.
What is character vs nature?
This part of the plot diagram is everything that happens after the climax.
What is falling action?
The author's attitude toward his or her subject.
What is the author's tone?
An example of this type of figurative language is - I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
The young girl walked happily to the new park with her brown dog. -Which word in the sentence is the adjective?
What are young, new, or brown?
This type of conflict is when the character struggles with issues in the government, a norm, or culture.
What is character vs society?
This part of the plot diagram is end of the story, when the conflict is resolved/finished.
What is the resolution?
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