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Figurative Language
Literary Elements
BAV
Genres of Literature
Potpourri
100
cry like a baby
What is a simile?
100
The central thought of a story.
What is the Main Idea?
100
Passing off someone else's ideas as your own.
What is Plagiarism?
100
An exaggerated story that is humorous and untrue.
What is a Tall Tale?
100
A person's life story written by himself or herself.
What is an autobiography?
200
buzz!!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The high part in the action of a story.
What is the climax?
200
Meaning exactly what you say.
What is Literal?
200
A folktale that includes magical elements.
What is a Fairy Tale?
200
A story from the past that is believed to be true, but cannot be checked.
What is a Legend?
300
Her hair is silk.
What is a metaphor?
300
The bad evil main character in a story.
What is the antagonist?
300
Letters added to the beginning or end of a word.
What is an affix?
300
True stories of actual events.
What is Nonfiction.
300
Background information on a story; it occurred before the story.
What is Exposition?
400
Its raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
400
To go back in time in a story.
What is a flashback?
400
The point of view of stories with pronouns like he, she, they, them and it.
What is 3rd Person?
400
An anonymous, timeless, placeless story originally told rather than written.
What is a Folktale?
400
A story that attemps to explain the origin of customs, beliefs or mysterious events.
What is a Myth?
500
little giants
What is an oxymoron?
500
The events leading up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
500
Information spread for the purpose of promoting some cause.
What is Propaganda?
500
A short fictitious story that teaches a moral or a lesson, often having animals as the main characters.
What is a Fable?
500
Descriptive language used to create word pictures for the reader.
What is Imagery?