Figures of Speech
An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
I hated camping, and now there were a billion mosquitoes in our tent.
What is Hyperbole?
The Sequence of events in a story.
What is Plot?
The supreme ruler of the gods, the lord of the sky.
What is Zeus?
The words that identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is about.
Sully was a good teacher.
What is Complete Subject?
A person, animal, or "thing" in literature.
What is Character?
A group of lines that forma unit, much like a paragraph in prose.
What is Staza?
Organizational items that label sections of text and tell what a section is about.
What is Titles, Headings, and Subheadings?
A struggle AGAINST another character, idea, or organization.
What is External Conflict?
Words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
The shaken soda fizzed out of the bottle.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The beginning of the story where the setting, characters, and conflict are introduced.
What is Exposition?
The queen of the gods and protector of marriage.
What is Hera?
All the words that ell or ask something about the subject?
Sully was a good teacher.
What is Complete Predicate?
The character or force working against the protagonist.
What is Antagonist?
The repetition of similar sounding words.
What is Rhyme?
A box beside or within text that provides additional information.
What is Sidebars?
An internal/emotional struggle between what the character wants to do and should do.
What is Internal Conflict?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.
The ancient car wheezed its last breath and refused to move another inch.
What is Personification?
The event that sets the story in motion.
What is Inciting Incident?
The god of the sea and earthquakes.
What is Poseidon?
A group of words that has the two main parts of a sentence; a complete subject and a complete predicate.
What is Clause?
The main character.
What is Protagonist?
The rhyme at the end of a line.
What is End Rhyme?
A text treatment that brings attention to important words or ideas.
What is Bold Face Type?
The protagonist has a problem with another character.
What is Person vs Person?
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
While walking the dog, I stopped to shoot the breeze with our neighbor.
What is Idiom?
The series of events, involving the characters, where the conflict intensifies leading toward the climax of the story.
What is Rising Action?
The god of the underworld.
What is Hades?
A sentence that contains one subject and one verb.
SV / SSV / SVV / SSVV
What is Simple Sentence?
A character mentioned only briefly.
What is Minor Character?
The rhyme within a line?
What is Internal Rhyme?
Definitions or additional information at the bottom of a page.
What is Footnotes?
What is Person vs Nature?
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
Kerri cooked cupcakes in her sister's kitchen.
What is Alliteration?
The "Turning Point" in the story; the conflict is the most intense, either internally or in action.
What is Climax?
The goddess of wisdom and war.
What is Athena?
A sentence with two or more simple sentences joined together using a comma or coordinating conjunction.
I,c,I / I,I
What is Compound Sentence?
A character whose situation is one that you can relate to.
What is Sympathetic Character?
The repeating of words, phrases, or sounds.
What is Repetition?
Visual elements such as maps, charts, diagrams, graphs, and photographs.
What is Graphic Aids?
The protagonist struggles with an internal problem such as fear, shyness, morals, or guilt.
What is Person vs Self?
A comparison of two, unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing.
Max is a starving hyena, devouring everything in sight.
What is Metaphor?
The events in a story where a decision is made and the protagonist is working towards a resolution.
What is Falling Action?
The goddess of earth and crops, mother of Persephone.
What is Demeter?
Coordinating conjunctions; for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so are referred to as.
What are FANBOYS?
A character that goes through a significant change from the beginning to the end of the story.
What is Dynamic Character?
What is Rhythm?
The protagonist faces a problem with machines.
What is Person vs Technology?
A reference to a person, place or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts.
My uncle Norman is such a Scrooge, he wouldn't even leave a tip for the waitress.
What is Allusion?
Either inferred or directly stated; the time and place that a story is set in.
What is Setting?
The god of shepherds, part man/part goat.
What is Pan?
Words used to describe nouns.
What is Adjectives?
A character that changes very little from the beginning to the end of the story.
What is Static Character?
The rhythmical pattern of beats in a poem.
What is Meter?
The protagonist faces a problem with society.
What is Person vs Society?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
She wilted like a thirsty flower when the teacher corrected her grammar in front of the class.
What is Simile?
The conflict is resolved, loose ends are tied up, questions are answered, and the story ends.
What is Resolution?
Mercury, the god of Science and invention.
What is Hermes?
Adjectives that modify a noun equally and are separated by a comma or "and".
What is Coordinate Adjectives?
A character that is fulling developed with both positive and negative character traits.
What is a Round Character?
The pattern of end rhyme in a poem.
ABAB
AABB
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The protagonist struggles with a force that seems beyond his/her control.
What is Person vs Supernatural?
The message about life or human nature; this is implied but must be written as a statement
What is Theme?
Mars, the god of war.
What is Ares?
A subordinate clause cannot stand alone in a sentence because it is dependent on the main clause.
What is a Dependent Clause?
A character that is stereotypical and one-dimensional; a simple character with limited personality traits.
What is Flat Character?
The repetition of a letter or sound at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
The perspective or viewpoint of a story.
What is Point of View?
The overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature, heavily influenced by the setting and is reader-centered.
What is Mood?
Vesta, the goddess of hearth and home.
What is Hestia?
Subordinate clauses begin with conjunctions.
after, although, as, because, before, even though, if since, so that, though, unless, until, when, where, and while
What is Subordinating Conjunctions?
The process of creating a character using words, thoughts, actions, appearance, and perception.
What is Characterization?
Words or phrases that appeal to the readers five senses; sight, hear, taste, touch, and smell.
What is imagery?
The narrator is a character typically the main character.
What is First-Person POV?
The attitude a writer takes towards the subject or the reader.
What is Tone?
This myth is about the foolishness of greed and the purpose is to teach a moral lesson.
What is King Midas and the Golden Touch?
The author makes direct statements about a character.
Chad was an angry, unkind, twelve-year-old boy.
What is Direct Characterization?
An object that represents another object.
What is Symbol?
The narrator is not a character in the story but more like a voice that tells the story.
What is Third-Person POV?
A struggle, obstacle, or controversy between opposing forces.
What is Conflict?
The myth explains how the seasons came to be.
What is Origin of the Seasons?
The author reveals information about a character through other characters thoughts, opinions, and responses to a character.
Chad stomped down the hallway, students quickly moved out of his way. Nobody would even think about making eye contact with him.
What is Indirect Characterization?
The narrator knows what all the characters think and feel, all-knowing.
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
This myth is about the origin of echoes and the narcissus flower.
What is Echo and Narcissus
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of just one character, usually the main character.
What is Third-Person Limited?