Figurative Language
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
The location and time period in which the story takes place.
What is setting?
The recurrence of similar sounds, especially at the end of lines in poetry.
What is rhyme?
The part of speech that expresses action or being.
What is a verb?
A direct comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
What is a metaphor?
A scene set in a time earlier than the main story.
What is a flashback?
The central topic, subject, or concept found in a text.
What is theme?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring units in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
Giving non-human objects or animals human-like qualities.
What is personification?
Hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
The pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language.
What is rhythm?
The perspective from which writing is approached (first, second, or third).
What is narrative voice?
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
A play on words that have similar sounds but different meanings.
What is a pun?
A character who undergoes significant internal change.
What is a dynamic character?
Direct address to an absent person or abstract idea as if it were present.
What is apostrophe?
A verb form ending in -ing functioning as a noun.
What is a gerund?
The use of words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
The narrator's position in relation to the story being told.
What is point of view?
An introduction to a story, providing background information.
What is an exposition?
A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
The use of informal or everyday language in writing.
What is colloquialism?