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Figurative Terms
Story Elements
Literary Terms
Poetic Terms
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Its raining cats and dogs. You are going to make your brain freeze. I am about to hit the sack.
What is an Idiom?
100
The part of the story where setting, characters, and background information is established.
What is Exposition?
100
A feeling or emotional state that a piece of literature creates in the reader such as comedic, suspenseful, tragic, joyous, etc.
What is mood?
100
These are like sentences in a poem.
What are Lines?
100
A person, place or thing that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself.
What is symbol?
200
The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.
What is Alliteration
200
The events that follow the climax and help to bring closure or a resolution to the conflict
What is Falling Action?
200
A guess based on clues from the text. ( schema+evidence)
What is Inferencing?
200
An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern that may be subdivisions of a poem.
What is stanza?
200
A comparison made using 'like" or "as"
What is a simile?
300
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.
What is personification?
300
The part of the story where conflict starts and escalates. These parts are necessary to bring about the climax.
What is Rising Action?
300
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: The way an author conveys his/her attitude about particular characters and subject matter. In poetry, it is called “voice.” It is the feeling the author brings to the piece or the attitude the author takes (towards the subject, audience, or character[s].
What is tone?
300
The narrator is a character in story often recognized by the use of pronouns "I' or "my"
What is first person point of view
300
The narrator is not a character in the story, but knows only the perspective of one character in the story.
What is third person limited Point of view?
400
Deliberate and extreme exaggeration made by the author of a story.
What is hyperbole
400
The big moment the explosion that ends a conflict.
What is Climax?
400
Mental pictures that a reader experiences with a passage of literature.
Imagery
400
I went to town to buy a gown. I took the car it wasn't far. (2 or more rhyming words that occurs within the same line)
What is Internal Rhyme?
400
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: 'Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. …Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.'
What is personification?
500
The sun is a flower is an example of
What is a metaphor?
500
The lesson to be learned or the moral of the story.
What is theme?
500
Audience undergoes "what will happen"
What is suspense?
500
I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I am. I do not like them on a boat. I do not like them with a goat. (name term and type of pattern)
What is rhyme scheme, AABB pattern?
500
The narrator is not a character in story, but knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters within the story.
What is 3rd person omniscient point of view?