A direct comparison between two things which are essentially dissimilar.
What is a metaphor?
100
The student explained her question yet the instructor still didn’t seem to understand.
What is The student explained her question, yet the instructor still didn’t seem to understand.
100
You`re dog is getting old.
What is YOUR dog is getting old?
100
A reference to a historical or literary figure or event.
What is an allusion?
100
Something concrete that stands for and represents something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
200
Neigh. Bang. Burp.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
I ate too quickly before my test, I think I needed more time to digest.
What is I ate too quickly before my test, and I think I needed more time to digest.
200
There sister is very funny.
What is THEIR sister is very funny?
200
the character that is directly opposed to the protagonist (a rival, opponent, enemy).
What is the antagonist?
200
The main character within a narrative.
What is a protagonist?
300
A figurative device referring to the use of language to appeal to your five senses, which are: sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste.
What is imagery?
300
Angie your friend missed the practice exam on Friday.
What is Angie, your friend, missed the practice exam on Friday?
300
The dog has it's own water dish.
What is the dog has ITS own water dish?
300
is always the point of highest interest where the reader feels the greatest emotional response. It is usually the turning point in the action.
What is the climax?
300
The narrator “I” is a character in the story who can reveal only his own thoughts and feelings and what he/she sees. “I couldn’t believe my eyes and wondered how she could let that happen.”
What is first person narrative?
400
This is one method that a poem is organized.
What is by its rhyme scheme?
400
The things I like to eat are: hot dogs chips elephant ears and donuts.
What is The things I like to eat are: hot dogs, chips, elephant ears, and donuts.
400
I am to excited.
What is I am too excited?
400
An interruption in the major action of a story, play or nonfiction work to show an episode that happened at an earlier time and place.
What is a flashback?
400
A combination of contradictory terms.
What is an oxymoron?
500
Brown bears barely biking
What is alliteration?
500
You were born on July 1 1980.
What is You were born on July 1, 1980.
500
I wish I could just get desert.
What is I wish I could just get DESSERT.
500
is the technique an author uses of giving the reader, listener, or viewer of a story hints of what is to come later in the work.
What is foreshadowing?
500
The overall feeling or atmosphere the writer creates in a work through the choice of setting, imagery, details, and descriptions.