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Literary Vocab
Types of Narration
Verb Tenses
Identify the Literary Device
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100
A comparison of 2 or more things (using like or as)
What is simile
100
Story told by a character involved in the story ("I")
What is first-person
100
"He wrote the letter"
What is past tense
100
"The cat's eyes were jewels"
What is metaphor
100
The reader's attitude toward the text
What is tone
200
To indicate or suggest something, usually something unpleasant, that is going to happen
What is foreshadowing
200
The narrator is not involved in the story
What is third-person
200
"She will eat the sandwich later"
What is future tense
200
"I could sleep for weeks"
What is hyperbole
200
Language that evokes one or all of the 5 senses
What is imagery
300
A scene or event from the past that appears in a narrative out of chronological order
What is flashback
300
The reader is directly spoken to ("you")
What is second-person
300
"She has written the report"
What is present perfect
300
"The wood burning crackled and hissed"
What is onomatopoeia
300
Name the tense: "I am running to the store"
What is present (progressive) tense
400
The author's attitude toward the text
What is tone
400
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story
What is third-person omniscient
400
"I will have eaten by then"
What is future perfect
400
"The daffodils nodded their yellow heads"
What is personification
400
What is this an example of "wise fool, jumbo shrimp"
What is oxymoron
500
The three types of irony
What is verbal, dramatic, and situational
500
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of only a single character in a story
What is third-person limited
500
"We had been working on the project"
What is past perfect (progressive)
500
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
What is alliteration
500
Poetic or literary effect effect by using several words which contain or begin with the same or similar vowel sounds
What is assonance