Literary Terms
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using the word like or as.
What is a simile?
A dog, a school, and a teacher are examples of this part of speech.
What is a noun?
It spells out the word there/their/they're that shows possession.
What is t-h-e-i-r?
Goddess of love.
Who is Aphrodite?
The rhetorical device that appeals to people's logic.
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things without the use of like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Small, brown, and easy are examples of this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
It spells out the word lose/loose that means to become without something by accident.
What is l-o-s-e?
She was a black professor who was yelled at by a bus driver on her way to the airport to visit her family for Christmas.
Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
The rhetorical device that appeals to people's emotions.
What is pathos?
This type of figurative language expresses an extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
Poorly, coldly, and fairly are examples of this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
It spells out the word affect/effect that is a noun.
What is e-f-f-e-c-t?
He bought McDonald brothers' share of the McDonald's restaurant.
Who is Ray (Raymond) Kroc?
The most suspenseful part of a fictional story.
What is climax?
This type of figurative language gives a non-human thing a human quality.
What is a personification?
On, through, and above are examples of this part of speech.
What is a preposition?
The object form of who/whom.
What is whom?
FULL NAMES of the three main characters of The Lightning Thief.
What are Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood?
A problem a character is struggling with within himself/herself.
What is internal conflict?
This type of figurative language repeats the same beginning sound in words close to each other.
What is alliteration?
In the following sentence, the word very is an example of this part of speech: I am very excited.
What is an adverb?
It spells out the word accept/except that means to take or receive.
What is a-c-c-e-p-t
He founded the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.
Who is E.D. Nixon?
The three types of text connections you can make as you read anything.
What are text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world?