Figures of Speech
Literary Elements
Literary Techniques
Examples
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100

It involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually using the words “like” or “as”

Simile

100

It is the perspective from which a story is told.

Point of View

100

The use of objects or images to represent ideas.

Symbolism

100

The stars were asleep.

Personification

100

These are the individuals in the story.

Characters

200

It is a figure of speech that appropriates human attributes and qualities to an animal, an object, or an idea.

Personification

200

These are the main events that make up the story.

Plot

200

It is a technique wherein the author exaggerates to enhance the meaning in the context of fiction.

Creative license

200

I had a dream so big and loud, I jumped so high I touched the clouds.

Hyperbole

200

What are the parts of a plot?

Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution

300

It is a figure of speech in which one thing is said when the opposite is meant.

Irony

300

Time, place, and environment in which a story takes place.

Setting

300

This is the general term for the conversation between two or more people as a feature of a story.

Dialogue

300

A million dreams are keeping me awake.

Paradox

300
Genre of writing that uses literary styles to create factually accurate narratives.

Creative nonfiction

400

It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly, but which may include a latent truth. 

Paradox

400

It is the central idea.

Theme

400

The writer uses language that appeals to the senses to create “word pictures” in the reader's mind.

Imagery

400

It was expected of a genius to get zero in a test.

Irony

400

It is the opposite of literal language which states facts and no more than facts.

Figurative language

500

It is a phrase containing a juxtaposition of two contradictory terms.  

Oxymoron

500

Central struggle of the main character.

Conflict

500

The presentation of events or scenes early in a story which hints at something that occurs later in the story.

Foreshadowing

500

She is not unkind.

Litotes

500

What are the three types of irony?

Situational, Dramatic, and Verbal