Figurative Language
The Figurative term that can be defined as a repetition of the beginning consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved.
What is the resolution?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
The central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story.
What is the protagonist?
A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
What is oxymoron?
The part of the plot where the action begins. It occurs after the inciting incident.
What is the rising action?
The time, place and atmosphere of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The rustling leaves kept me awake is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is onomatopeia?
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close.
What is the falling action?
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
What is allusion?
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” - From James Joyce’s “The Dead”
is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is alliteration?
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs also known as the turning point.
What is the climax?
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is sensory imagery?
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is irony?
Anything that stands for or represents something else. An example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"
What is a symbol?
“the shackles of love straiten’d him
His honour rooted in dishonoured stood
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true” - Lancelot and Elaine (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)
is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is oxymoron?
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition?
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues (like Walter Mitty) is known as what?
What is a round character?