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Figurative Language
Plot
Literary Terms
Romeo & Juliet
Short Stories
100
Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Highest point of action on a plot pyramid, also a turning point in a story.
What is the climax?
100
Device an author uses to hint at events which will occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
Name of Romeo's best friend?
Who is Mercutio?
100
The "most dangerous game" General Zaroff hunts on his island.
What are humans?
200
Comparing two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
200
Main problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
200
Device an author uses to recall something that occurred BEFORE the story began.
What is flashback?
200
Romeo's last name.
What is Montague?
200
Della sells this to buy her husband a platinum chain in "Gift of the Magi."
What is her hair?
300
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
300
Solution to a problem in a story.
What is the resolution?
300
An educated guess you make about a character based on his/her dialogue/actions.
What is an inference?
300
Romeo's method for killing himself.
What is poison?
300
Jim sells this to buy Della combs for her hair in "Gift of the Magi."
What is his watch?
400
Giving an object or idea human-like qualities.
What is personification?
400
Beginning of a story where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
400
When the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs.
What is situational irony?
400
Romeo's cousin.
Who is Benvolio?
400
In "Thank You, Ma'am," Roger tries to steal an old woman's purse to buy these.
What are suede shoes?
500
Using words to imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The TWO main types of conflict.
What are internal and external.
500
When the reader knows something a character in the story doesn't know.
What is dramatic irony?
500
Person who marries Romeo & Juliet.
Who is the Friar?
500
Name of General Zaroff's "butler."
Who is Ivan?