Story Elements
Figurative Language
EOC Vocabulary
Name that Figurative Language
More Important Terms
100

The time and place of a story

What is the setting?

100

A comparison that uses "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

To break apart and think through

What is Analyze?

100

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

What is alliteration?

100

This offers a concise summary of the main point or claim of the essay.

What is a thesis statement?

200

The message the author is trying to convey

What is the theme?

200

An extreme exaggeration

What is a hyperbole?

200

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning an educated guess

What is inference?

200

Crash, bang, boom

What is onomatopoeia?

200

A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

300

The action that leads to the climax

What is the rising action?

300

an inanimate object, abstract idea, or animal is given human abilities or characteristics

What is Personification?

300

To give a brief statement of the main facts

What is summarize?

300

EOC's are the worst thing in the world.

What is a hyperbole?

300

The use of a concrete image to represent an abstract idea

What is Symbolism?

400

The struggle between opposing forces 

What is conflict?

400

Contradictory terms that appear next to each other

What is Oxymoron?

400

To tell how something works

What is explain?

400

Preparing for the EOC is like getting a root canal.

What is a simile?

400

The feeling or atmosphere created by the author in a literary work

What is Mood?

500

the mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel.

What is tone?

500

a contradictory statement which actually makes sense or contains some truth

What is a Paradox?

500

To show how things are alike and how they are different

What is compare and contrast?

500

The pie was awfully good.

What is an oxymoron?

500

a group of lines in a poem or song that constitute a division (like a paragraph)

What is a stanza?

600

The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of ALL characters in a story.

What is Third-Person Omniscient?

600

A reference to something that is well known to the audience.

What is allusion?

600

Double Points:A line of writing that consists of 10 syllables in a specific pattern of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

What is Iambic Pentameter?

600

The camel is the ship of the desert.

What is a Mataphor?

600

A recurrent character in literature in all cultures

What is an archetype?