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?
A person, animal, or "thing" in literature.
What is Character?
Writing by a person telling their own life story is a
What is an autobiography?
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 character or force working against the protagonist.
What is Antagonist?
This text structure shows similarities and differences between two things
What is compare/contrast
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 main character.
What is Protagonist?
This is where the thesis is found in an essay.
What is introductory paragraph?
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?
A character mentioned only briefly.
What is Minor Character?
This is found in the third paragraph of an argumentative essay.
What is counterargument?
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?
A character whose situation is one that you can relate to.
What is Sympathetic Character?
This is the guiding force of an essay.
What is Thesis?
The protagonist struggles with an internal problem such as fear, shyness, morals, or guilt.
What is Person vs Self?