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Literary Elements
Figurative Language
Literary Elements 2
Poetry
Figurative Language Examples
100
Where and when a story takes place.
What is setting.
100
Figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to achieve an effect, whether serious, comic, or ironic
What is Hyperbole?
100
Hints given by the author about future events.
What is Foreshadowing?
100
Sally sold seashells down by the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
100
The wind moaned in the trees.
What is Personification?
200
An interruption of time order in a story to show something that occurred beforehand.
What is flashback?
200
Words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses- used to create pictures in the reader's mind.
What is Imagery?
200
When the setting, main characters, and initial conflicts are introduced in the story.
What is the Exposition?
200
The shape of structure of a poem; the way the poem looks on the page.
What is form?
200
It was raining cats and dogs.
What is an Idiom?
300
The events of an entire story.
What is plot?
300
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is Personification?
300
The highest point in the story or the point in which there is a shift in the story.
What is the Climax?
300
This term is used to describe writing that is NOT poetry- our everyday use of the language.
What is Prose?
300
She is the apple of my eye.
What is a metaphor?
400
The end of the story when the conflict has been settled.
What is the resolution?
400
A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
400
The general idea that a writer tries to get across to the reader or the message the writer is sending.
What is theme?
400
The basic arrangement of words in a poem; they may or may not be sentences.
What is a line?
400
I am so hungry I could eat a whole cow.
What is Hyperbole?
500
The reader's feeling about a story.
What is mood?
500
An expression that literally states one thing, but means something else entirely.
What is an Idiom?
500
When someone is torn between doing what is right and what others want him or her to is an example of this.
What is internal conflict?
500
Lines are arranged into these; thought of as the 'paragraph' of a poem.
What is the Stanza?
500
He acted like a real bear this morning.
What is a simile?