Plot
The turning point of a story is called the
Climax
He is a famous horror novelist, but was a teacher before publishing his first book.
Stephen King
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is filled with this type of literary device
Alliteration
Find the adverb
The red dog quickly drank his water.
quickly
A comparison using LIKE or AS
Mr. Spencer is as tall as a house
Simile
This part of the plot contains the events that move a story toward its climax
Rising Action
Books by this famous Maine author include Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
Name three kinds of external conflicts in stories.
Person v. Person
Person v. Society
Person v. Nature
Other options: Person v. Supernatural, Person v. Technology
Mars, rocket, and astronaut are all what part of speech?
Nouns
Onomatopoeia
Not giving credit to a source is an example of
Plagiarism
She wrote the poem Renascence:
All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a bay.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The novel, Number the Stars was written by this author who also wrote The Giver.
Lois Lowry
In the lyrics to Imagine, by John Lennon,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
The words imagine and sharing are both this part of speech:
A type of figurative language that compares two things without using like or as.
Ex: He had a heart of stone
Metaphor
The exposition of a story introduces these three elements
Setting, Characters, and Conflict
This famous poet was born in Portland, Maine (then Massachusetts) in 1807.
He wrote the poem Paul Revere's Ride
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Words that sound the same, have different meanings but are spelled differently are called ______.
Examples,
so or sew
too, two, to
Homophones
Larry lives in Lincolnville on Levenseller Pond. These names are all capitalized because they are this specific part of speech.
Proper Nouns
To the guy who invented zero, thanks for nothing.
This is an example of a....
Pun
Denouement is another term for
Resolution
In Brunswick, Maine you can visit the home of this famous writer. During the two years she lived in Maine, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin - an anti-slavery novel.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A commonly understood expression that is literally nonsense.
Examples: Hit the hay. Miss the boat.
Idiom
Common types of these are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So.
Conjunctions
(Coordinating Conjunctions to be exact)
A literary device used to hint at a future event.
Foreshadowing