"you hootin' owls 'll eat breakfast soon this mornin' or I'll know why," she said.
What is dialect?
100
The quality of a literary work that makes the characters or situations seem funny.
What is humor?
100
She was as mad as a hornet.
What is simile?
100
The use of words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
200
Hints the author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
Speech that reflects pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar typical of a geographical region.
What is dialect?
200
The volcano's fiery red fingers reached out to scorch the land.
What is personification?
200
Words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses.
What is imagery?
200
Writing that comments humorously on human flaws, ideas, social customs, or institutions in order to change them.
What is satire?
300
Amazingly agile alligators swam around the lake.
What is alliteration?
300
The world awakens from frozen slumber
when vibrant blooms appear.
They tell Spring to sound her trumpet
and let the party commence.
What is free verse?
300
My brother was a firecracker ready to pop.
What is metaphor?
300
Seven swans sit silently on the shore.
What is alliteration?
300
A technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions or contrasts.
What is irony?
400
I'd give a million dollars for one minute of peace and quiet!
What is hyperbole?
400
Crunch! Fizz! Clang! are examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
It will take me a thousand years to clean my room!
What is hyperbole?
400
Interruption of the chronological (time) order to present something that occurred before the beginning of the story.
What is a flashback?
400
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art to enrich the reading experience by adding meaning.
What is allusion?
500
The giant wave chewed him up and spit him out.
What is personification?
500
The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny.”
You laugh at a person who slipped stepping on a banana peel and the next thing you know, you slipped too.
What is irony?
500
“He was a real Romeo with the ladies.” Romeo was a character in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, and was very romantic in expressing his love for Juliet.
What is allusion?
500
What a character does, or says.
What other characters say about him or her.
What the author reveals directly or through a narrator.
What is characterization?
500
Language that has meaning beyond the literal meaning; also known as figure of speech.