Stories
When two or more characters are speaking in a story.
What is dialogue?
Comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
Point of view
What is the perspective from which a story is told?
The following excerpt is an example of a:
"I walked a million miles to find you" is an example of...
What is a hyperbole?
Reasoning or facts given in opposition to an argument
What is the counterclaim/counterargument?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
When the narrator describes what is happening so the reader can visualize and imagine the story.
What is description? What are sensory details/imagery?
A reference made to someone or something in history, art, literature, or pop culture
What is an allusion?
Denotation
What is the dictionary meaning of a word?
"The chair groaned as he sat on it" is an example of...
What is personification?
Words at the beginning of paragraphs that help readers understand things such as sequence and time.
What are transition words/phrases?
The term for a universal idea or lesson that is central to a story
What is the theme?
A category of passages that have a particular style, form, and content such as fiction and nonfiction.
What is genre?
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me…
What is synaesthesia?
Connotation
What is the implied/emotional meaning of a word?
The following excerpt is an example of a:
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of...
What is a metaphor?
A type of writing that lets the reader know about something factual.
What is informative or informational?
An author's specific way of writing, word choices, etc. describes what literary term?
What is style/diction?
The term for the sequence of events that make up a story
What is the plot?
Repetition of initial vowel sounds
What is assonance?
Idiom
What is a figure of speech that is understood but doesn't mean what is said literally? Or something to that effect.
The following excerpt is an example of:
The boom of the fireworks scared the baby
What is onomatopoeia?
The last sentence of the first paragraph which states the subject of the essay
The following excerpt is an example of a:
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free.
What is alliteration?
The 5 stages (in order) of the plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
"Sweet sorrow and deafening silence" are examples of
What is an oxymoron?
The feeling the story gives the reader.
What is the mood?
The following excerpt is an example of :
The salty, thick air was filled with sinister, rumbling clouds as the storm approached.
What is imagery/sensory detail?
Stating examples or facts explicitly mentioned in the text.
What is citing textual evidence or what is evidence?
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term? Example: A "Mockingjay" in The Hunger Games series.
What is a symbol?