Figurative Language
This type of figurative language draws a comparison between two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
A Literary device that hints at future events in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
An original document or artifact that provides first-hand information about an event or topic.
What is a primary source?
Words that are pronounced the same but have different spellings and meanings.
What is a homophone?
This type of figurative language draws a comparison between two unlike things, not using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
A character that undergoes a significant internal change or transformation throughout a story.
What is a dynamic character?
A group of lines forming a unit within a poem.
What is a stanza?
A logical conclusion drawn from evidence in the text.
What is an inference?
Modifies an adjective, adverb, or verb.
What is an adverb?
This figurative language gives human qualities or characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas.
What is personification?
The term for the events that follow the climax and leads to the resolution.
Falling action.
The intentional use of the same word or phrase to emphasize a point, create rhythm, or enhance meaning.
What is repetition?
Biographies, encyclopedias, textbooks, and documentaries are all this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
A set of dots indicating an omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous.
What is an ellipsis?
This type of figurative language uses exaggeration to make a point or emphasize a statement.
What is hyperbole?
A Literary device that involves a contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs, or between what is said and what is meant.
What is situational irony?
A sentence or phrase that continues over one or more lines without punctuation, creating a sense of flow and continuity.
What is enjambment?
Another term for the main idea of a piece of informational text.
What is a central idea?
A clause with a subject and a verb and can be a complete sentence by itself.
What is a main/independent clause?
A phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning that is different from the literal meaning of the words.
What is an idiom?
The term for the main parts of the story, which includes the problem.
What is the rising action?
Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive clauses or lines.
What is anaphora?
Inform, persuade, and entertain are all examples of this.
Author's purpose.
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is a connotation?