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Figurative Language
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It's What You Say
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Making a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Words that have the same meaning.
What is a synonym?
100
Repeating initial consonant sounds in a line or passage or words.
What is alliteration?
100
Usually at the beginning, shares important background information of characters, and setting.
What is the exposition?
100
A statement that seems absurd or contradictory but when investigated may prove to have truth to it.
What is paradox?
200
Making a comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
200
Words that are spelled the same way but have different meanings.
What is a homonym?
200
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
The highest point or turning point of a story.
What is the climax?
200
Combinations of contradicting terms.
What is oxymoron?
300
When an object or animal is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
Words that have completely opposite meanings?
What is an antonym?
300
The thoughts, feelings, and images associated with a word. What a word makes you think of.
What is connotation?
300
Wrapping all the loose ends of the story up.
What is the resolution?
300
When you substitute a word or phrase with a more simple word related to it?
What is metonymy?
400
The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings.
What is a homophone?
400
Repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.
What is assonance?
400
The part of the story where conflict is introduced and developed.
What is the rising action.
400
Saying things in a nicer, more police way. Substituting an offensive term for an inoffensive more acceptable word.
What is euphemism?
500
A metaphor developed at length.
What is an extended metaphor?
500
An exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
500
Repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within a word.
What is consonance?
500
The struggle between opposing forces/characters in a story: man v man, man v nature, man v society, and/or man v himself.
What is conflict?
500
Popular expressions or sayings.
What is an idiom?