A comparison between two unlike things without a connecting word.
What is a metaphor?
100
Nonhuman thing or quality that is talked about as if it were human.
What is personification?
100
"the clouds are mean"
What is personification
100
The statement that provides a central focus for the essay.
What is thesis statement?
200
An exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
200
Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Person, place, thing, or event that stands both by itself and for something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
200
A long, narrative poem about a hero.
What is epic?
200
The part of the essay that grabs the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
300
Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
300
Contrast between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
300
Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
What is assonance?
300
the distinguishable flakes
blowing sideways,
looked like krill
What is simile
300
A word that connects parts of an essay.
What is a transition?
400
A character that changes during the story.
What is a dynamic character?
400
The part in the plot where the conflict is resolved.
What is resolution?
400
A point of view where the narrator is a character in the book and uses the pronoun "I."
What is first person?
400
This car goes faster than the speed of light!
What is hyperbole?
400
The attitude of an author.
What is tone?
500
Struggles with other characters.
What is external conflict? (or person vs. person)
500
A comparison between two things using like or as, but where one of the things is normal and one is epic.
What is a Homeric simile?
500
An adjective or descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing. (ex. gray-eyed goddess, Honest Abe, America the beautiful)