Figurative Language
She is as slow as a turtle!
What is similie
a repetition of sounds at the ends of words , such as pool, rule, and fool.
What is Rhyme
Tells a story in verse. Has elements similar to those in a short story, such as plot and characters.
What is narrative.
A series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.
What is Plot
Who are the main characters in the beginning of the story?
What is the setting in the beginning of the story?
What is Exposition
The snow was a white blanket over the town.
What is a metaphor
A beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. The cat sat on the mat.
What is Rhythm
Poetry expressed in a thoughts or feelings of a single speaker, often used in highly musical verse.
What is Lyric
The struggle between two people or things in a short story.
What is conflict
What events happen after the exposition and before the climax?
What is Rising Action
The ocean crashed angrily during the storm!
What is personification
What is repetition
Poems that are shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page.
What is concrete
The central idea or belief in a short story
What is the theme
When does the main character face their problem? This is the turning part of the story… things will never be the same for the character.
What is climaz
A million bees had stung him!
What is Hyperbole
Bang, Hiss, Splat
What is onomatopoeia
A poem with three-line Japanese verse form. The first and the third lines each have five syllables and the second has seven.
What is a Haiku
A person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or other literary work.
What is character
What happens immediately after the climax?
What is Falling Action
What is Imagery
A repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words: lovely lonely lights.
What is Alliteration
A poem that is a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
What is a Limerick
The part of the short story that is the time and place in which it happens. Authors often use descriptions of landscape, scenery, buildings, seasons or weather to provide a strong sense of setting.
What is setting
What happens at the VERY end of the story?
What is resolution