ELA Words
This is when you compare something using like or as. For example, "her smile is like the sun."
What is a simile
This is what we call the paragraphs of poetry.
What are stanzas
the speaker or voice of an oral or written work.
Hint: Brent Bishop in the odd chapters of Whirligig
What is the narrator?
When two characters talk to each other This is how we reveal most details in a drama/play.
What is dialogue?
This is another word for sarcasm or saying the opposite of what you mean.
What is verbal irony?
This is when you give something that is not human human characteristics.
What is personification.
Poems that don't have a rhyme scheme
What is free verse?
When a fire station burns down.
This is an example of this type of irony?
situational irony
Plays are divided into ____________ and ____________.
Think about "The Diary of Anne Frank".
What are acts and scenes?
two successive lines of poetry that rhyme
What is a couplet?
This is when the author paints a picture in the reader's head.
What is imagery?
It's not a magic trick. It's the ELA term for a reference to something in literature, movies, or pop culture, that the author expects you to know.
What is an allusion?
the main character of a novel, a play, or a film
What is a protagonist?
This is a speech given by one character to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
What is alliteration?
"Friendships like flowers may wither and decay, and yet the root perennial may be." The author is using an analogy to explain this idea.
What is that friendships may fade but the foundation remains.
The girl's face was beauteous in the morning light. What does beauteous likely mean?
What is beautiful?
This is how many characters are speaking in a monologue.
What is one?
a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth
What is hyperbole?
BOOM, SPLASH, KABOOM, and other words that mean what they sound like are examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia.
A 14-line poem, written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
This is when the reader or viewer knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
a literary device in which an earlier event is inserted in a narrative
What is a flashback?
This is the beginning of the story when you get exposed to characters and setting before the conflict begins.
What is exposition?