Figurative Language
"He's got tons of money" is one.
What is a hyperbole?
Define characterization.
What is the way a writer reveals the personality/traits of a character.
The writer's attitude toward the subject is created by the language used in the text. This is the ______ .
What is tone?
The setting and the characters in a story are usually revealed in this part of the plot.
What is the exposition?
One of the characters tells the story using the pronoun "I" or "we."
What is first person point of view?
Define denotation.
What is the dictionary definition of a word?
What is a simile compares two things using "like" or "as" and a metaphor compare two things by saying that one is the other.
A character that stays the same throughout the story is this.
What is static?
Main idea is to non-fiction as ______________ is to fiction.
What is theme?
The series of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
conversation between two or more people
What is the dialogue?
A word may have a meaning through the emotions and feelings that the reader attaches to it.
What is connotation?
Ribbit. Achoo. Growl. Cackle. Tick-tock. Murmur. Jingle. Quack.
What are onomatopoeias?
The protagonist is usually dynamic. This means the character _______________ .
What is changes over the course of the story?
The author hints at what is coming later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The turning point in the story. The point where the character comes face to face with the conflict. The point of greatest suspense.
What is the climax?
The narrator is not a character in the story and only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
A synonym is a word that means the same thing as another word, but an antonym _____________ .
What is a word that has the opposite meaning?
"The trees danced in the wind" is an example.
What is personification?
Bonus (10): Define personification.
A protagonist is ________________ .
What is the main character of a story?
The author's precise use of language is one element that contributes to the overall emotional feeling or atmosphere of the text. This feeling/atmosphere is the __________ .
What is mood?
The events in the story that lead up to the climax.
What is rising action?
The narrator addresses the reader and uses the pronouns "you" and "your."
What is second person point of view?
Authors do not always directly state the information they want the reader to know. Instead, the reader must use evidence in the text, along with with background knowledge, and __________________ the answers.
What is infer?
In the poem, "The Raven," Edgar Allen Poe uses this figurative language in the following line: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
What is alliteration?
The character who works against the protagonist is the ________________ .
What is the antagonist?
A character may think back to an earlier time or the narrator may describe an earlier incident to provide prior information.
What is a flashback?
The initiating event is where this is introduced in the story. It may have occurred before the story begins.
What is the conflict?
The narrator is not a character in the story and knows nothing about the thoughts and feelings of any of the characters--only what can be seen.
What is third person objective point of view?
The reader uses the information in the surrounding words and sentences to define an unfamiliar word. The reader is using _____________ .
What is context clues?
Jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
When the author uses indirect characterization, the reader must __________ the character traits from the other information in the text.
What is infer?
Bonus (10): Infer is a verb. What is the noun form of the word? When you infer, you make an ______________.
An author sometimes uses familiar objects or concepts to represent ideas. The author is using ______.
What is symbolism?
After the falling action, the conflict is settled and the loose ends of the story are wrapped up in this part of the plot.
What is the resolution?
The narrator is not a character in the story and knows everything about the characters' thoughts and feelings.
What is third person omniscient?
A prefix is the beginning part of a word. A suffix is the end part of a word. The base of the word is the _____.
What is the root word?