"C" Words
Let me think about that
That's easy
A piece of cake
I know that
100
achieved through description, thoughts, words, actions, and reactions of characters
What is characterization?
100
This is literary device that always tells a story
What is a narrative?
100
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
What is personification?
100
story told from the "he, she, they" point of view
What is third person?
100
the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
What is foreshadowing?
200
Most exciting moment of the story; turning point
What is climax?
200
the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
200
the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
200
a generalization that is used to characterize a person without acknowledging individual differences
What is stereotype?
200
a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character
What is internal conflict?
300
the struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
300
logical conclusion based on observations
What is inference?
300
The time and place of a literary work
What is setting?
300
Anything that stands for or represents something else
What is symbol?
300
a comparison not using like or as, as in "her eyes are a blue sea."
What is metaphor
400
put in opposition to show or emphasize differences
What is contrast?
400
the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thought, words, and actions
What is indirect characterization?
400
theme The main idea or meaning of a text. Often, this is an insight (a nugget of truth) about human life revealed in a literary work
What is theme?
400
excited anticipation of an approaching climax
What is suspense?
400
a scene or event from the past that appears in a narrative out of chronological order, to fill in information or explain something in the present
What is a flashback?
500
examine and note similarities
What is compare?
500
a type, class, or category, especially of fine art or literature
What is genre?
500
using words that imitate the sound they denote
What is onomatopoeia
500
the opposite of what is expected
What is irony?
500
a type, class, or category, especially of fine art or literature
What is genre?
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