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Figurative Language
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Four people and a thing
100
Giving a non-human object human characteristics
What is personification?
100
What do we call a piece of short fiction?
What is a short story?
100
The main idea of a story
What is a theme?
100
A long, continuous fight between families
What is a feud?
100
a blood relative, usually a male
What is kinsman?
200
Comparing two things using the word "like" or "as"
What is simile?
200
A long work of fiction
What is a novel?
200
"The stars are diamonds" is an example of this/
What is metaphor?
200
When one shows balance or little emotion, we call it this.
What is moderation?
200
A type of priest in the Roman Catholic Church who belongs to a religious order
What is a friar?
300
Comparing two things that are not alike by calling one by the other's name
What is a metaphor?
300
A piece of literature designed to be acted on a stage
What is drama?
300
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
300
To go after someone or something and bring it back
What is fetch?
300
A priest who listens to what you have done wrong and gives forgiveness
What is a confessor?
400
Words that sound like what they repreent
What is onomatopoeia?
400
A work of literature that is based on facts and information
What is nonfiction?
400
When a writer gives a hint or clue of what will happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
400
To become red or heated in your face
What is blush?
400
A person who inherits from someone who has died
What is an heir?
500
Exaggerating greatly
What is hyperbole?
500
A piece of literature arranged in lines with a regular rhythm and rhyme
What is a poem?
500
A long, uninterrupted speech by a character in a play
What is a soliloquy?
500
To end one's own life
What is suicide?
500
The introduction to a story or a play
What is a prologue?