Figuratively Speaking
"BOOM!"
What is Onomatopoeia?
In The Hunger Games, when Peeta is called to the podium, Katniss distinctly remembers him giving her bread when her family was starving.
What element of literature is used here?
What is Flashback
This Greek root means 'self'.
What is AUTO?
A literary device characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces.
What is a conflict?
Fever 1793 would fit into this genre.
What is Historical Fiction?
"Life is a highway" is this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
"I have a bad feeling about this..."
What element of literature is used here?
What is Foreshadowing?
The Latin root 'cent' means this...
What is "hundred"?
A struggle between one character and another.
What is a man vs. man conflict?
A genre consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people in a believable setting.
What is Realistic Fiction?
I've got "bigger fish to fry" is this type of figurative language.
What is an Idiom?
The perspective from which a story is told...
What is Point of View?
The word "critical" comes from the Latin root, 'crit', meaning this.
What is JUDGE?
This is the only type of internal conflict.
What is man vs. self conflict?
If the story has fairies, unicorns, or flying dragons it is definitely in this genre.
What is Fantasy?
"This bag of groceries weighs a ton!"
What is Hyperbole?
A literary device in which a writer uses one thing--usually a physical object or phenomenon--to represent something more abstract. For example, a rose represents love.
What is Symbolism?
To draw or write comes from this Greek root.
What is 'graph'?
When lightning strikes a tree and it falls on the main character's house, it is this type of conflict.
What is man vs. nature?
Aliens from another galaxy visiting our planet or traveling through time place a story in this genre.
What is Science Fiction?
"Lightning danced across the sky" is this type of figurative language.
What is Personification?
When a story can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one, and has two levels of meaning, it is called this.
What is an Allegory?
This Latin root means star.
What is ASTR?
The protests against unfair voting rights held in the 1960s would be this type of conflict.
What is man vs. society?
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is Genre?