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Figurative Language
Analogies
Plot Pyramid
Story Elements
Miscellaneous
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This type of figurative language makes a comparison using the words LIKE or AS

What is a simile?

100

Asia : continent :: ___________ : city

What is Philadelphia?

100

The most interesting and exciting part of a story

What is climax?

100

The voice that tells the story


What is Narrator?

100

The roots "cycl", "circ", and "centr" mean...

What is circle

200

This figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two things without using the words LIKE or AS.

What is a metaphor?

200

___________ : joint :: break : bone

What is dislocate?

200

The characters and setting are introduced

What is exposition?

200

Words that describes a character's personality

What are character traits?

200

This is the lesson, or moral, of a story.

What is theme?

300

This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to animals or objects.

What is personification?

300

house : _____________ :: bus : mobile

What is stationary?

300

The winding down of the story that takes place after the climax

What is the falling action?

300
The narrator is a character in the book telling the story and using pronouns such as "I" and "me"

What is first person point of view?

300

This is a feeling of growing tension and excitement; the cliff hanger

What is suspense?

400

This type of figurative language is a common and familiar expression that has meaning different from the meaning of individual words.

What is an idiom?

400

_________ : captive :: friend : companion

What is hostage?

400

The solution or end of a story

What is resolution?

400

The narrator is outside the story telling what only ONE character is feeling or thinking

What is third person limited point of view?

400

The vocabulary word which means a mixture of unpleasant sounds; harsh noises

What is cacophony?

500

The roller coaster loved nothing better than to make the kids scream is an example of what type of figurative language.

What is personification

500

souvenir : ___________ :: waltz : dance

What is memento?

500

The conflict is introduced in this part of the story

What is Rising Action?

500

The narrator knows and describes how all the characters are feeling and thinking; they are "all knowing"

What is third person omniscient?

500

The following roots mean .... "chron" and "temp"

What is time?