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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 sensory language/imagery?
100
A figure of speech that compares things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
The use of any element of language more than once. It could take place with a sound, word, phrase, or grammatical structure. It is used to stress important ideas and feelings, and to create memorable sound effects.
What is repetition?
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. A Problem in the story
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 long fictional story whose length is usually somewhere between 100 and 500 pages. It uses all the elements of storytelling: plot, character, setting, theme, and point of view.
What is novel?
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 emotion associated with a word.
What is connotation?
300
Arrangement of events in the order in which they happened.
What is chronological order?
300
A story written about a person’s life, but it is written by another person.
What is biography?
400
All the information you as a person know about a particular subject. Man y times it is necessary to understand the text.
What is background information/schema?
400
A prose/story 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
A lesson that is learned at the end of reading.
What is a Theme, Life Lesson, Moral
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. Language you must figure out the meaning of.
What is figurative language?
500
The one telling the story.
What is narrator?
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. AND The reason or cause that a character behaves a certain way.
What is plot? AND What is motive/motivation?