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Figurative Language
Literary Terms
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100
Words with opposite meanings.
What are Antonyms?
100
The introductory material that gives the setting, creates the tone, and presents the characters and other facts necessary to understanding a story.
What is exposition?
100
The repetition of specific sounds within a line of text (sounds may be found anywhere in the word or words).
What is alliteration?
100
Any conversation within a text.
What is dialog?
100
Pretty ugly is a good example of this figure of speech.
What is oxymoron?
200
Words with similar meanings.
What are synonyms?
200
The time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation unfolds.
What is the setting?
200
The comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
200
The use of hints and suggestions to offer clues to future developments in a work.
What is foreshadowing?
200
"The Most Dangerous Game" is a rousing example of one.
What is a short story?
300
Words that sound alike but have different meanings
What are homonyms?
300
The struggle or clash between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
300
A word or words which appeal to the senses –sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell– and helps to create pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind.
What is imagery?
300
Anyone who tells a story.
What is a narrator?
300
She is as dumb as a bag of bricks is a good example of this figure of speech.
What is simile?
400
The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The decisive moment or turning point in a story that determines the outcome of the conflict.
What is the climax?
400
A figure of speech which gives animals, objects, or ideas human characteristics.
What is personification?
400
The use of an object to represent or suggest something else.
What is symbolism?
400
Arther Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Maya Angelou, and John Grisham are all examples of these.
What are authors.
500
The literal meaning of a symbol or word (dictionary definition).
What is denotation?
500
The close or termination (ending) of a written work.
What is the conclusion.
500
A statement which seems to be self-contradictory or absurd yet turns out to make good sense.
What is a paradox?
500
A short story that is designed to teach a truth or lesson.
What is a parable?
500
"For me, teaching at Lufkin High School is always a source of great joy and and pride." This is a clear example.
What is sarcasm?