Literary Terms
Come in the room quiet as a mouse.
What is a simile?
Help me, Rhonda! Help! Help me, Rhonda!
What is repetition?
Subject or topic explored in a piece of fiction
What is theme?
What is central idea?
This is where you can find where you are testing on Thursday
What is the Canvas dashboard?
The clock ticked impatiently.
What is personification?
What is a rhetorical question?
Who is telling the story
What is point of view?
Why the author has chosen to write something
What is purpose?
Words that hint at what another word means
What are context clues?
The world is your oyster.
What is a metaphor?
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
What is antithesis?
The way someone sees something
What is perspective?
The new Switch costs an arm and a leg!
What is an idiom?
They were smiling, singing, and dancing.
What is parallelism?
Voice that narrates a poem
What is a speaker?
My dog thinks the dog park is the Garden of Eden.
What is an allusion?
He carried my bags and my heart with him.
What is zeugma?
Writer's or speaker's attitude towards the subject/topic
What is tone?