Fiction
Fiction Pt.2
Other Terms
Figurative Language
100

The main idea of the passage.

Central Idea

100

The figurative meaning of an idea or word.

Connotation

100

When the passage goes back in time to show a particular event.

Flashback

100

Fair is foul, and fould is fair.

Alliteration

200

The problem that the main characters have to deal with.

Conflict

200

The literal meaning of a phrase or word.

Denotation

200

A visual description of a certain thing.

Imagery

200

Yes...my refridgerator is running...

Personification

300

The conversation between people in a book, movie, etc.

Dialogue

300

A summary with all facts (no opinions).

Objective Summary

300

A joke that goes with the current flow of the story

Ex. What does a flea and the eiffel tower have in common? They are both paris-sites!

Pun

300

Im so hungry I could eat a horse!

Hyperbole

400

The creation of a fictional character.

Characterization

400

The place or location of the book, movie, passage, etc.

Setting

400

A narrator that the reader has trouble believing.

Unreliable Narrator

400

BOOM! POW! KAPLOW!!

Onomatopoeia

500

Two ideas put together that contradict eachother.

Ex. Original copy

Oxymoron

500

The main subject of a passage.

Theme

500

Speaking ones thoughts aloud.

Soliloquy

500

To look upon another peice of literature in a passage.

Inference

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