FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
PLOT
LITERATURE
ELEMENTS
POETRY
POV &
LITERATURE ELEMENTS
GENRE
100

Language that cannot be taken literally. (ex - "you're pulling my leg, right?).

Figurative Language

100

The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story.  The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution.

Plot

100

The way an author describes characters to show what they are like.

Characterization

100

Writing that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery, and sometimes rhyme.

Poetry

100

When the narrator of t he story uses "I" to describe events. (ex - "I went down my back steps and there, in front of me, was the thing that terrified me.")

First Person

100

a play for theater, radio, or television.

Drama


200

A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g. She eats like a bird.)

Simile

200

The author introduces the characters & setting (time and place).

EXPOSITION

200

The 'emotions' of a work or of the author in his or her creation of the work.

Mood

200

 to speak in words or phrases with the same ending sound or to create a written piece out of such phrases. An example of rhyme is to say the words "bike" and "like."

rhyme


200

A perspective that presents the events of the story from outside of any single character's perception.

Third Person

200

Name three types of folk tales.

Tall tale, myth, legend

300

Writing that compares or describes without using 'like' or 'as'. (ex. -the man is a bulldozer;nothing can move him.)

Metaphor

300

A struggle between opposing characters or forces in a story; the plot is usually about getting a resolution to it.

Conflict/Problem

300

The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters (e.g. serious or humorous).

Tone

300

The pattern of rhyme in a poem

Rhyme Scheme

300

A form of writing where the author is "all-knowing" and can share each character's thoughts or past.

Omniscient

300

highly imaginative fiction that uses strange or unusual characters, setting and plot:  dragons, magic, elves, etc...

Fantasy

400

The use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning. (ex. - "hiss" or "meow")

Onomatopoeia

400

The author hints at future events without actually telling them.

Foreshadowing

400

A way of writing that looks back on an event that happened before the time of writing; often written as if from the memory of a character.

Flashback

400

A row of words in a poem; marked by numbers

line

400

A word or group of words in writing which speaks to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell.

Imagery/Sensory Language

400

Writing which tells a story or relates events or dialogue

Narrative

500

Something non-human which is given human qualities or human form (ex. Flowers danced about the lawn.)

Personification

500

The part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated, the conflict is known, and is  leading up to the climax.

Rising Action

500

Conversation between people in a story.

Dialogue

500

The beat of a poem

Rhythm

500

A judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or actual statement.  A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.

Inference

500

A story intended to teach a moral lesson. Animals with human characteristics often serve as characters. 

Fable

600

An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally (ex- "Get your head out of the clouds")

Idiom

600

The events of a story following the climax that leads to the resolution.

Falling Action

600

How an author writes; an author's use of language.

Style

600

When a word or phrase is used more than once for emphasis

Repetition

600

The overall message, statement, observation or life lesson of a piece of literature including poetry.

Theme

600

a literary genre where the story takes place in the past

Historical Fiction

700

An exaggeration or overstatement (ex-I was so embarrassed I could have died.)

Hyperbole

700

The end, we learn what happens to the characters after the conflict is resolved.  It is the happily ever after or not.

Resolution

700

An implied reference in writing to a familiar person, place or event without actually mentioning them. (usually from another work of literature.)

Allusion

700

Words that repeat beginning consonant sounds (Ted tiptoed toward two tiny trees.)

Alliteration

700

The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning, often sarcastically.

Irony

700

Short stories featuring mythical beings such as fairies, elves, and spirits.

Fairy Tale