Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as" Ex. "Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a Simile?
The act of coming to a conclusion based on facts or making and educated guess.
What is making an inference?
When a character struggles with an internal or external force.
What is conflict?
A punctuation mark that can be used in a direct quote, list, or explanation.
What is a colon?
Where the story takes place.
What is setting?
Direct comparison Ex. "The front is a cage."
What is a Metaphor?
The 3 purposes why an author might write.
What are to persuade, inform, and entertain?
The author/speaker's attitude toward the subject. Ex.) Informal or Formal and then describe further.
What is Tone?
A punctuation mark that separates an independent clause from a dependent clause.
What is a comma , ?
The 2 key elements that create an author's style?
What are Diction and Syntax?
Gives human characteristics to non-humans. Ex. "The trees whispered in the breeze."
What is personification?
The feeling created by a piece of literature. Ex. Joyful, Mournful
What is Mood?
An object, person, situation, event, or action in a story that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
A punctuation mark that sets a phrase or clause off from other parts of a sentence. Hint: Can be used instead of a parenthesis, colon, or comma.
What is a Dash?
The life lesson or moral of the story the author wants to teach us.
What is theme?
A statement that is not meant to be taken literally. Ex. "It is raining cats and dogs!"
What is an idiom?
The main idea or main point that the author is making, or what the text is mostly about.
What is Central Idea?
How a passage is organized. Ex. Compare and contrast, cause and effect, etc.
What is structure?
A punctuation mark that separates 2 independent clauses that are related.
What is a semicolon ; ?
The speed of the plot.
What is pace?
Extreme exaggeration. Ex. "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
A reference to a person, place, or another work of literature.
What is an Allusion?
An object, person, situation, event, or action in a story that represents something else AND is reoccurring.
What is a Motif?
The repetition or pattern of words or phrases in a text.
What is Parallelism or Parallel Structure?
A character that shows up in many works from different cultures.
What is an archetype?