Giving human qualities to nonhuman objects. Example: The table walked quickly out of the room.
What is Personification?
100
Character central (main) to the story with all major events having some importance to this character. Example: Cinderella
What is protagonist?
100
words that have the same spelling and some pronunciation, but different meanings. Example: Let's PLAY soccer after school. The author wrote a new PLAY.
What is Homonyms?
100
In the word deconstructionist, what is the prefix?
What is de?
200
an expression that means something other than the usual meaning of the words-Example: raining cats and dogs
What is idiom?
200
A situation with a twist. Example: He won the lottery and died the next day.
What is irony?
200
The opposition to the main character of the story. Example: the step-mother
What is antagonist?
200
Words that have the same spelling, but different pronunciations and meanings. Example: Please CLOSE the door. The boy sat CLOSE to his uncle.
What is Homographs?
200
What does the suffix "-less" mean? Example: Joyless
What is without?
300
Compares to unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
300
The FEELING created in a reader in the heart. Example: giddy, lonely
What is Mood?
300
Where the action of the story takes place.
What is setting place/where?
300
Words that have close to the same meaning. Example: old, ancient, antique.
What is Synonyms?
300
What is the root word of decomposition?
What is compos?
400
Compares two unlike things. Example: Her heart is an ice cube.
What is metaphor?
400
Speakers ATTITUDE in the head. Example: bossy, miserable
What is Tone?
400
When the story is taking place.
What is setting time/when?
400
Words that are the opposite. Example: Correct-Wrong
What is Antonyms?
400
What is -phobia?
What is fear of?
500
The repeating of beginning consonant sounds. Example: He bravely breached his boiling point.
What is Alliteration?
500
In literature the five senses. Example: He felt like the flowers were waving him a hello.
What is Imagery?
500
Five main conflicts.
What is person vs. nature, person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. machine
500
Relationship between one pair of words or terms. Example: hockey:ice::soccer:grass