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Figurative Language, Pt. 1
Literary Elements
Genre
Punctuation
Parts of Speech
100
This compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
This major idea of a text is usually repeated several times, thus providing us an idea of its importance.
What is theme?
100
This genre addresses facts, figures, and real-to-life events accurately.
What is non-fiction?
100
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What is a period?
100
The part of speech that conveys action or state of being
What is a verb?
200
This compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as," and thus comprises most figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
200
This is the way something is said in a text, with special emphasis on figurative language and vocabulary.
What is diction?
200
This genre is written in lines and stanzas rather than sentences and paragraphs.
What is poetry?
200
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What is a comma?
200
A person, place, thing, idea, or concept
What is a noun?
300
This provides human qualities to non-human things
What is personification?
300
This is how something is said in a text, usually decipherable through punctuation, sentence formation, and other subtle methods.
What is syntax?
300
This genre is designed to be performed, although in some cases it can be read. Think of The Crucible.
What is drama/theater/play?
300
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What is a colon?
300
This part of speech describes nouns.
What is an adjective?
400
This uses wild exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
Poetry takes its cues from these two elements: the first has to do with sound, the second has to do with syllables.
What are rhyme and meter?
400
This genre has very few new additions, as most of them were first told thousands of years ago for explanatory or moral purposes.
What is myth or folklore?
400
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What is an apostrophe?
400
This part of speech describes verbs, adjectives, and sometimes whole sentences.
What is an adverb?
500
This is a reference within one text made to a different one.
What is an allusion?
500
Diction + syntax = ...
What is tone?
500
This genre, probably the most popular written genre in America in the past hundred years, tells long stories and thus requires chapters.
What is the novel?
500
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What is a semi-colon?
500
A word expressing separation via distance or time, or providing some syntactic function
What is a preposition?