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Magic Carpet
Genie in a Lamp
Sword in the Stone
Dragon Breath
Stinky Feet
100
A figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. These things usually have something in common. A comparison between two seemingly unlike things where one thing is talked about as another thing.
What is metaphor?
100
A struggle with an internal force…Man vs. Self. The conflict is emotional.
What is internal conflict?
100
Appeals to the senses. It is written so that the reader can literally hear, feel, taste, touch, smell, see what the author is describing.
What is imagery?
100
A figure of speech that compares things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
Introduces the story's conflict, characters, and setting.
What is exposition?
200
A contrast between expectation and reality. Verbal involves a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant. Situational occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen. Dramatic occurs when the audience or readers know something the characters in the book do not know.
What is irony?
200
A struggle between two forces.
What is conflict?
200
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
200
When an author uses an object to stand for an idea.
What is symbolism?
200
A state of excitement or anxiety resulting from uncertainty or mystery.
What is suspense?
300
A figure of speech in which non human things (an idea, object, or animal) are given human characteristics. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes
What is personification?
300
A struggle with outside forces…three types: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Society
What is external conflict?
300
The author’s use of clues or hints to prepare readers for events that will happen later.
What is foreshadow?
300
Sequence of events in the order in which they happened.
What is plot?
300
A story written about a person’s life, but it is written by another person.
What is biography?
400
Time and place in which the events of a literary work occur.
What is setting
400
A prose account that is basically made up rather than actually being true
What is fiction?
400
Can follow the poet’s natural voice in free verse poetry, as if the writer were speaking to the reader. In more traditional poetry, a regular rhythm is established.
What is rhythm?
400
The central message of a work of literature.
What is theme?
400
The recurrence of initial consonant sound. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
What is alliteration?
500
A person, animal, or inanimate object in a story, play, or other literary work.
What is character?
500
A character in literature who opposes, or goes against, the main character.
What is antagonist?
500
Expressions that are not literally true. They create fresh and original descriptions.
What is figurative language?
500
The rules in a language that govern the structure and formation of sentences.
What is syntax?
500
The series of related events that make up a story…the introduction is known as exposition, the complications are known as rising action, the most exciting part is known as climax, the beginning of resolving the problems is known as falling action, and when the problems are solved or the story is closed, this is known as the resolution.
What is plot?