Types of Figurative Language
Found In Literature
Types of Literature
Literature Elements
Literature Elements
100

The ability to form mental pictures of things or events

What is Imagery?

100

A type of writing that explains, gives information, or clarifies an idea

What is Exposition?

100

A work intended for performance by actors on a stage; Shakespeare

What is drama?

100

Someone who offers opposition; the character who comes into conflict with the protagonist in a literary work

What is an antagonist?

100

An open clash b/w two opposing groups

What is a conflict?

200

Passing reference or indirect mention; a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion,

What is allusion?

200

The act of providing vague advance indications

What is foreshadowing?

200

Prose writing that is not formed by the imagination

What is nonfiction?

200

The act of describing essential features

What is characterization?
200

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

What is a figure of speech?


What is figurative language?

300

Difference b/w what might be expected and what happens

What is irony?

300

Giving an account describing a course of events

What is narration?

300

An extended fictional work in prose; not a book

What is a novel?

300

The principal character in a work of fiction

What is a protagonist?

300

Man vs. Self

What internal conflict?

400

The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character

What is tone?

400

The subject matter of a conversation or discussion

What is theme?

400

The Tragedy of Macbeth is this type of literature.

What is a drama?

400

Where the author describes the character directly; ex. John in a good soldier

What is direct characterization?

400

Where the author describes the character indirectly through actions, speech, appearance, private thoughts or other characters responses.

What is indirect characterization?

500

When the audience understands something, the characters don’t

What is dramatic irony?
500

Something visible that represents something invisible

What is symbol?

500

"The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" is this type of literature. HINT: it is NOT one of our vocab words

DAILY DOUBLE

What is a myth?

500

The highest point of anything; the most intense or exciting moment in the story when something happens to decide the outcome of the conflict

What is the climax of the story?
500

Man vs. Man; man vs. Nature; man vs. Society; man vs. The supernatural

What is external conflict?