Plot Elements
Figurative Language
EXAMPLES
For Brave Kids Only
Potluck
100
weather, dialect, time of year
What is setting
100
comparison using like or as
What is simile
100
Dayton dives at deep depths in the dark ocean.
What is alliteration
100
Blakes feet are boats.
What is metaphor.
100
choice of words
What is diction
200
turning point in a text
What is climax
200
exaggeration
What is hyperbole
200
living dead
What is oxymoron
200
sarcastic, aggressive, despairing
What is examples of tone
200
sound words
What is onomatopoeia
300
central message or moral of a text
What is theme
300
giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
What is personification
300
Madison is so bored that she would rather watch paint dry than come to this class.
What is hyperbole
300
Julio likes Patricia, but he is unsure of whether he should ask her on a date.
What is internal conflict
300
dark night, scary music, people whispering
What is foreshadowing
400
main character, good guy
What is protagonist
400
repeated sentence structure
What is parallelism
400
The room was filled with deafening silence.
What is oxymoron.
400
choice of words
What is diction
400
uses five senses
What is imagery
500
something different than what is expected
What is irony
500
2 contradictory words put together to mean something else
What is oxymoron
500
Good fences make good neighbors.
What is parallelism OR idiom
500
art of speaking persuasively
What is rhetoric
500
feelings associated with a word
What is connotation
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