Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
What is it?
What is it?
100
The time, place, physical details and circumstances in which a situation occurs.
What is setting?
100
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a work of literature.
What is foreshadowing?
100
A comparison of two things NOT using LIKE or AS.
What is a metaphor?
100
In Ireland in 1989.
What is the setting?
100
In the beginning I am riding in the mountains. Then, my horse becomes injured. I have to save my horse from the mountain lion. I find my backpack looking for my weapon. I begin to fight the lion. I save my horse and help comes to my rescue. This sequence of events are colled the _______________ in a story.
What is plot?
200
A person who is responsible for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature.
What is a character?
200
Material that is presented that occured earlier than the present tense.
What is a flashback?
200
An actual definition.
What is literal language?
200
Tell the mood of this paragraph "She yelled at him 'I never want to speak to you again! You are a liar. You need to leave me alone now!"
What is angry, mad, upset?
200
I saw a bright light. My mother who has passed was standing there smiling and waving at me just like she did every day when I came home from school as a young child. This past memor is called a ________________.
What is flashback?
300
One who tells a story, the speaker or the voice of an oral or written work.
What is the narrator?
300
An implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
What is irony?
300
Describing something by comparing it to something else.
What is figurative language?
300
I am the hero in the story. I beat up all the monsters. I am considered this.
What is a character?
300
I saw a man peeping out the window staring at Janelle. I was wondering what he could want from her. Who was he? This is an example of what in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The main idea or message showed during the piece.
What is the theme?
400
Words that create mental pictures.
What is imagery?
400
The attitude used in a story.
What is tone?
400
I am the person telling the story to you.
What is the narrator?
400
A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets. This sentence is an example of this.
What is irony?
500
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
500
A comparison of two things using LIKE or AS.
What is a simile?
500
A temporary feeling or state of mind.
What is mood?
500
The message or ______________ in the story was to listen to your parents.
What is theme?
500
As the author gave details in the story, I began visualling the character. This is an example of this.
What is imagery?