Figurative Language Definitions
What is simile?
I ran a million miles today.
The problem in the story.
What is conflict?
A text structure that presents a problem and possible solutions.
What is problem and solution?
The beginning of the story that sets the stage for the rest of the plot.
What is exposition?
An exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
The leaves danced in the rain.
What is personification?
The character in conflict with the main character.
What is antagonist?
The sentence that tells the reader what the essay will be about.
What is thesis statement?
The reason an author decides to write a piece.
What is author's purpose?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
A character who is well developed in a story.
What is a round character?
What is compare and contrast?
An author hints at something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Words that appeal to the five senses
What is imagery?
Boom!
What is onomatopeia?
The part of the plot when the conflict has been resolved.
What is resolution?
A text structure that presents a change over time.
What is chronological?
The author's feelings towards the subject.
What is tone?
Something that represents something else
What is symbolism?
It is raining cats and dogs.
What is idiom?
A character who changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
A text structure where the author explains the reasons that something occured.
What is cause and effect?
A conclusion drawn from the reader's background knowledge and the information in the text.
What is inference?