Vocab
plot
What is the main events that occur in a story
Nonfiction
What is writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people
Metaphor
What is comparing two unlike things not using like or as
Alliteration
What is series of words in a row (or close together) have the same first consonant sound
Noun
What is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas
Internal Conflict
What is a conflict that takes place within a character
Autobiography
What is An account of the writer’s own life written from the author’s perspective
Simile
What is comparing two unlike things using like or as
onomatopoeia
What is use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions which they refer
Verb
What is a word or phrase that conveys an action, an occurrence, or a state of being.
External Conflict
What is a conflict with another character, or society, or the outside world.
Biography
What is An account of a person’s life written or told by another person
personification
What is human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
Allusion
What is a reference to another work of literature
Subject and Predicate
What are the parts of a sentence?
Characterization
What is what makes up a fictional character
Memoir
What is A narrative composed from personal experience. Often shorter than autobiographies
Hyperbole
What is exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Pun
What is a play on words
Preposition
What is used before nouns to form a phrase that shows where, when, how and why
Tone
What is the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
Speech
What is -A form of communication in spoken language made by a speaker before an audience for a given purpose
Irony
What is literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case
Euphemism
What is an indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing
Conjunction
What is join clauses or sentences or words