Figurative Language
A figure of speech in which a non-human thing, or idea, or animal displays human traits, or characteristics
What is personification?
A brief statement, or account, of the main points of a story.
What is a summary?
A literary term that explains the underlying message, or belief, about life the author tries to convey.
What is theme?
This is where the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
This is the introduction of a story.
What is the exposition?
A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas to make an emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
A literary device in which the reader must come to a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
A type of story that usually involves supernatural explanations, or historical events, and typically involves a hero, or supernatural beings.
What is myth?
This sentence type contains one, or more, dependent clauses.
What are complex sentences?
These are all the events that lead to the climax.
What is the rising action?
A literary phrase that should be understood to mean something different than what the literal words imply.
What is an idiom?
In poetry, this is a division of lines.
What is a stanza?
A type of story written by the author which tells about the life of the author.
What is an autobiography?
A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events.
What is a flashback?
This is the most exciting point in the story.
What is the climax?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things with the help of words like "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
A literary technique in which the author uses an object, and gives it an entirely different meaning that is much deeper, and significant.
What is symbolism?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
What does FANBOY stand for?
F: For, A: And, N: Nor, B: But, O: Or, Y: Yet
These are all the events that lead to the resolution of the story.
What is falling action?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are unrelated, but share common characteristics.
What is a metaphor?
A literary technique in which the author uses particular words that create visual, or sensory representations, or ideas, in our minds.
What is imagery?
A type of story about the life of a person that gives details about basic facts, or experiences, in the life of a person.
What is biography?
This is an illustration with exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is a plot diagram?
This is the final part of a story.
What is the resolution?