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Elements of Style
Literary Devices
Text Features
Figurative Language
Potpourri
100
Language that appeals to the senses
What is imagery?
100
Something that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well, usually abstract
What is a symbol?
100
A short description of an illustration
What is a caption?
100
The way a simile and a metaphor are similar
What is both compare unlike things?
100
The definition of a synonym
What is a word that means the same or nearly the same as another?
200
An extreme exaggeration in which something is said to be bigger and better than it actually is
What is hyperbole?
200
The meaning of the term "literary style"
What is the way a writer uses language?
200
Extra information that appears at the end of a book
What is an appendix?
200
The way a simile and a metaphor are different
What is simile uses like, as, than, or resembles; metaphor does not?
200
Statistics
What are number facts?
300
A phrase or expression that has a meaning different from what the words suggest in the usual meaning
What is an idiom?
300
The use of clues or hints to suggest what will happen later on in the plot
What is foreshadowing?
300
What a footnote does and where it is found
What is a footnote gives extra information, at the bottom of the page?
300
The definition of personification
What is a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes?
300
The definition of an inference
What is an educated guess?
400
A figure of speech that is a reference to something in the culture that people share
What is an allusion?
400
An interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time
What is a flashback?
400
Three ways words are written to show they are important
What is bolded, italicized, put in quotation marks?
400
The definition of figurative language
What is any word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true?
400
An understatement
What is a statement that says less than what is meant?
500
A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain place or certain group of people
What is dialect?
500
The use of symbols to represent larger ideas in the story
What is symbolism?
500
Where an index is found and how it is arranged
What is at the back of a book, in alphabetical order?
500
"Stretching as far as you can see" is either a simile, metaphor, or neither one. Choose one and explain.
What is NEITHER? It is not comparing two unlike things.
500
The two things you combine to make a supported inference when you read
What are reasonable prior knowledge and evidence in the text?