Figurative Language
A comparison where one thing is said to be another.
Metaphor
When a word, line, or event happens repeatedly.
Again and again.
The way lines are grouped in a poem.
Stanza.
The sequencing of events in a story.
Plot
This point of view narration includes words such as I, me, we, and our.
First person.
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Personification
When a character says or does something that’s the opposite of what he has been saying or doing all along.
Contrast and Contradiction.
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words near each other.
Alliteration.
The person who tells a story.
Narrator.
The author's purpose when writing an argument for wearing uniforms in school.
To persuade.
Words that imitate sounds.
Onomatopoeia.
When the character asks himself a really difficult question.
Tough Question
The use of stressed and unstressed syllables to create a beat, specifically in poetry in verse form.
Meter or Rhythm.
The highest point of tension or the turning point of a story.
Climax
This point of view includes words like him, her, they, he, she, and them.
Third person.
An extreme over-exaggeration.
Hyperbole.
When a character (who’s probably older and lots wiser) takes the main character aside and gives serious advice.
Words of the Wiser
Two or more words with similar-sounding end syllables placed to echo one another.
A character who undergoes a change in a story.
Dynamic character.
To entertain.
A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning,
Idiom.
When a character realizes, understands, or finally figures something out
Aha moment.
Rhyme within the same line of a poem.
End rhyme.
When the author reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly.
Indirect characterization.
The author's purpose in writing an article about how to improve one's health.
To inform.