Figurative Language
Understanding the plot
Vocabulary
100

What is a simile?

A) Comparison not using like or as 

B) Giving human characteristics to non-human things 

C) An exaggeration 

D) Comparison using like or as 

D) A comparison using like or as

100

What part of the plot is the event leading to the resolution and the end of the story?

Falling action 

100

What is the life lesson or message?

Theme

200

What type of figurative language is this?

 The candle flamed danced when anyone walked by.

Personification 

200

What is the most exciting or most suspenseful part of the story called? 

Climax

200

What is creating pictures in your mind about what you're reading called?

Visualizing

300

What kind of figurative language is this?


Harry hurried home to watch football on TV.

Alliteration 

300

What is the ending of the story called?

Resolution

300

A specific category for a type of book is called...

A) autobiography

B) scene

C) genre

C) Genre

400

What type of figurative language is this?

Jeepers!! This room smells like a dumpster! 

Simile

400

What belongs in the number 2 box?

Rising Action

400

What is it called someone writes a drama?

Playwright

500

What figurative language is this?

Muriel complained as she lifted Maria's backpack.  "This thing weighs a ton!!

Hyperbole

500

The beginning of the story is called.....

Exposition 

500

What is it called when two people are having a conversation in a drama?

A dialogue