Fig. Lang 1
BOOM, POP, CRACK, POW
Onomatopoeia
-words that sound like what they describe
Tiny Tim tells terrible stories!
Alliteration
Protagonist
A group of words in a poem; the equivalent of a "sentence" in a poem
Line
An action word
Ex: run, jump, have, go, eat, sleep
Verb
A cow as white as milk
A cape as red as blood
Hair as yellow as corn
Slipper as pure as gold
Simile
Comparison using like or as
A common expression not meant to be taken literally, such as "that was a piece of cake"
Idiom
The villain in a story / the thing causing conflict
Antagonist
A group of lines in a poem; the equivalent of a "paragraph"
Stanza
A person place or thing,
Ex: dog, car, man, lady
Noun
The teacher told her a million times to stop talking
Hyperbole
Saying something you don't mean
Or when an audience knows more than the characters
Irony
The highest point of tension in a story
Climax
In "Hope is the Thing with Feathers", Emily Dickinson compares hope to what animal?
A bird
Anything that isn't the main content of a text
Ex: Title, headings, images, charts, captions, graphs, footnotes
Text Features
-words starting with the same sound/letter
My love is a flower; she blooms in the sun
Metaphor
The thing that kicks off the story by changing or disrupting the main character's life
Inciting Incident
In poetry, instead of saying "narrator", we say___
Speaker
When the narrator is a character in the story and uses "I, me, myself" statements
1st person POV
Write an example of a metaphor
comparison WITHOUT using like or as
Ellis ran to push his friend into the pool, but as he ran he slipped and fell into the pool himself.
A struggle between 2 or more opposing forces in a story
Conflict
What is the Rhyme Scheme:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm out of my head
Thinking of you
ABAB
Claim