Category 1
When one thing represents another.
What is symbolism?
This is the message of a story.
What is the theme?
Metaphors, similes, personification, imagery, and idiom are all examples of this.
What is figurative language?
This is an educated guess.
What is an inference?
This is the feeling behind a word.
What is connotation?
Parallelism, Repetition, and Rhetorical Questions are examples of this.
What is rhetoric?
This is the author's attitude.
What is tone?
This is when a hint is given about what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This is when an author makes a statement that tells their stance on an issue.
What is a claim?
"The coarseness of the sand felt somehow good on his hands" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is imagery?
This is making fun of something that is really a serious matter.
What is satire?
This is an exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
"Teeth like desecrated headstones" is an example of this.
What is simile?
Giving human qualities to something that is not human.
What is personification?
Word choice, punctuation, and sentence length are all ways the author can create this in a story.
What is tension or suspense?
This is when the opposite of what you expect to happen, actually happens.
What is irony?
This uses the senses to appeal to the reader.
What is imagery?
"The man was a giant tree standing over us" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
Cause and effect is an example of this.
What is text structure?
What is an allusion?
This is when sentence structures are repeated for emphasis.
What is parallelism?
This can be first, second, or third for a narrator.
What is point of view?
This is also known as a tongue-twister.
What is alliteration?
This can be internal or external.
What is conflict?
These are the events of a story.
What is the plot?