Literary Terms
The moral or lesson of the story.
Theme
They're as friendly as two cats in a wool sack.
Simile
I went to the mall with Jack and Jeremy.
Clause or phrase?
My best friend
Phrase
Guess my middle name.
When the story hints at something that will happen in the future.
Foreshadowing
My dryer is a black hole for socks.
Metaphor
The voice in my head sometimes tells me to hug my mom.
Noun
A group of words that contains a subject and a verb that have a relationship.
Clause
Where does Earth fall in the order of planets from the sun?
Third
The problem in a story that needs to be resolved by the end.
Conflict
He's got tons of money.
Hyperbole
She wore a large, scarlet dress to the prom.
Adjective
Type of sentence:
The boy asked for a banana-flavored popsicle.
Simple
Write 3:00 PM in military time.
1500
The technique of creating believable characters (through the description, dialogue, actions).
Characterization
The hunter crept through the underbrush of the dark forest as overhead the wind whispered through the trees.
Personification
Ouch! I just stubbed my toe and it really hurts.
Interjection
Type of clause:
If I had a hundred dollars
Dependent
What does WWW stand for in a website address?
World Wide Web
Flashback
Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel.
Allusion
The first time I met my husband, all he said to me was, "Wow, you're very short."
Adverb
Type of sentence:
The three blind mice quickly ran home, but they were snatched by an alley cat before they could make it.
Compound
Per human deaths each year, this is the deadliest animal on the continent of Africa
Hippopotamus