The conversation among characters in any kind of narrative, story, or play.
What is dialogue?
100
This is an author's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
100
Bing! Bam! Pow!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Brooke burnt the brownies she baked for the boys on the baseball team.
What is alliteration?
100
A rhetorical device that uses the credibility of the speaker to persuade an audience.
What is ethos?
200
The character who opposes the main character in a work of fiction.
Who is the antagonist?
200
This is the feeling or emotion that a literary work conveys to readers.
What is mood?
200
I'm so tired I could sleep for a week!
What is hyperbole?
200
Out of the blue, my mom bought me a new car!
"Out of the blue" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
200
This quote from Cassius is an example of which rhetorical device? Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
What is logos?
300
In this perspective, I am a character in the story & I tell it using words like "I" and "me".
What is first-person point of view?
300
This is the central message of a story that readers can apply to life.
What is the theme?
300
"They crossed another yard, where hulks of obsolete machinery crouched, bleeding rust into their blankets of snow."
What is personification?
300
"It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place."
(Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, 1951)
What rhetorical technique is used here?
Anaphora
300
You should buy this house today because if you don't you will be missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
What is pathos?
400
In this perspective, I am not a character in the story, but I tell all the action and can read all of the character's thoughts.
What is third-person omniscient point of view?
400
The use of clues by the author to prepare readers for events that will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."
What is metaphor?
400
This is what happens when a traffic cop has his driver's license suspended for too many unpaid parking tickets.
What is irony?
400
As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results.
What is ethos?
500
In this perspective, I am not a character in the story and I narrate all the action but I can read only one character's thoughts.
What is third-person limited point of view?
500
This is when a story jumps back to past events, often using a character's memory.
What is flashback?
500
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
What is oxymoron? (or) What is alliteration?
500
"The girl had a single weakness: diamonds. The glittery rock was her Achilles' heel."
Achilles' heel is an example of this.
What is allusion?
500
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery… We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut.