Figurative Language
A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This type of word takes the place of a noun, such as he, she, it, or they.
What is a pronoun?
The part of the story, usually at the very beginning, where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
A word that has the exact opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
The name of the cooking rat from Ratatouille
Remy
Extreme exaggeration used to make a point, such as "I’m so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
This punctuation mark is used to show ownership or to form a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
The turning point of the story, which is usually the most exciting or intense moment.
What is the climax?
The Greek root bio, found in words like biology and biography, means this.
What is life?
The tallest land animal.
What is a giraffe?
Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-human things, like "the wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
A sentence error that happens when two or more independent clauses are joined together without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
The main struggle or problem between opposing forces that drives the plot forward.
What is the conflict?
This five-letter prefix means "against" or "opposite," as seen in words like social or freeze.
What is anti-?
This was the year that Fortnite released.
What is 2017?
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
In the sentence "The happy dog barked loudly," this word is the adverb.
What is loudly?
The final part of the plot where the story's loose ends are tied up and the conflict is fully resolved.
What is the resolution?
The literal, dictionary definition of a word, distinct from its emotional feelings or associations.
What is denotation?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is skin?
A figure of speech that makes an indirect or subtle reference to a well-known person, place, event, or piece of literature.
What is allusion?
This is the term for a group of words that contains a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
The process by which writers create and develop fictional characters in a story.
What is characterization?
The Latin root aud, found in words like audience, audible, and auditorium, means this.
What is to hear?
This is the number of keys on a standard piano.
What is 88?