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Examples - You name it
100
A character who works against the main character and is usually the source of conflict.
What is an antagonist?
100
This is when the author gives the reader a clue about something that might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
"Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down."
What is personification?
100
"Her tears fell like raindrops from the clouds?"
What is What is a simile?
100
Spiderman, Superman, Harry Potter
What is the protagonist?
200
From the Greek word "ladder", the time when a story reaches its point of greatest intensity and is usually the turning point.
What is climax?
200
The event that follows teh climax to help get the readers to the solution or resolution.
What is falling action?
200
"The cat's eyes were jewels, gleaming in the darkness."
What is a metaphor?
200
The part of a story where the conflict starts to build; leads to the climax.
What is rising action?
200
My blue shoes are new, and they amuse me.
What is assonance?
300
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
300
The author tells you about the personality characteristics of a character.
What is direct characterization?
300
The burning wood crackled and hissed. Boom!
What is an onomatapoeia?
300
The "voice" teh author uses to convey his/her attitude about a particular character or subject matter.
What is tone?
300
The ladder landed in the molded water.
What is consonance?
400
The repeating of vowel sounds throughout a phrase or sentence.
What is assonance?
400
The part of the story where the setting, characters, and background information is established.
What is exposition?
400
An exaggeration to make a point: He is a billion years old.
What is a hyperbole?
400
An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern that by be subdivisions in a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
The wicked witch of the west, the Green Goblin, the Joker
What is the antagonist?
500
A reference to something famous to make a point.
What is allusion?
500
A minor character; readers know very little about him or her.
What is a flat character?
500
A mental picture a reader gets when reading a passage.
What is imagery?
500
A major character; the reader knows much about him and he usually undergoes changes throughout the story.
What is a round character?
500
Did you order jumbo shrimp?
What is an oxymoron?