Figurative Language
This type of figurative language is a comparison between 2 unlike things that states one thing IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
Setting refers to these two main facts of a story.
What are time and place?
This number is the quantity of different points of view we discussed in class this year.
What is 5?
This number is the quantity of different conflict types we discussed in class this year.
What is 7?
This character is the main character in a story, or the person the story is about.
Who is the protagonist?
These words the main difference between a simile and metaphor.
What are like and as?
This term refers to the author's or narrator's attitude about the topic or events they're narrating.
What is tone?
This point of view is when the reader is addressed directly by the narrator using 'you', effectively becoming a character in the story.
What is the second (2nd) person?
Someone struggling to overcome fear and self-doubt is an example of this kind of conflict.
What is a flat character?
"I've been playing pokemon since I was born" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
This term refers to the reader's emotional response to the details and events of the story.
What is mood?
This is the point of view used in the following passage.
"Rex walked through the alley toward the street. He stopped by a trashcan and sniffed around it, and then he climbed up on his hind legs and pawed the lid off of the can. The can fell over and the waste spilled out into the alley. Rex began cherry picking the food items. As he was gnawing on a pizza crust a large Rottweiler trotted up to the mess. He began growling at Rex. Rex moved to the perimeter of the spill, but the Rottweiler followed him, growling with more intensity. Rex met eyes with the Rottweiler and instantly they began fighting."
What is third person (3rd) objective?
Character vs. Society conflicts involve a character facing opposition from these sources.
What are the government, police, authority figures, or societal expectations?
This term refers to a character who is the opposite of another character in the story, usually the protagonist, in order to draw attention to their differences.
What is a foil?
This type of figurative language is used in the sentence "The moon was a silver coin hanging in the sky."
What is metaphor?
These words could describe the tone when the narrator uses humor to discuss their subject, indicating that they don't take it seriously.
What are lighthearted, humorous, or joking. (or related concepts)
This point of view describes a story where the protagonist is the narrator and is told using the pronouns 'I, me, my, we, us our."
What is first person?
This type of conflict often involves a character fighting against a predetermined future or prophecy, trying to stop it from happening.
What is Character vs. Fate?
This character from A Sound of Thunder is the best example of a human antagonist.
Who is Mr. Travis?
This type of figurative language is used in the sentence "The wind sang a quiet song through the lightly rustling branches of the trees."
What is personification?
The mood of the final scene of A Sound of Thunder could best be described using these words.
What are despairing, hopeless, or fearful? (or related concepts)
This point of view involves a narrator who is separate from the action of the plot but has access to the inner thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story.
What is third person omniscient?
In A Sound of Thunder, the scene where the hunters fire their guns at the T-rex as it charges them is an example of what kind of conflict?
What is Character vs. Nature?
This character from A Sound of Thunder is both dynamic and round.
Who is Eckels?