Figurative Language
When you compare two things and you say one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor
When you compare two or more things and use the words like or as to compare the two.
What is a simile
A method of characterization where a character's looks are described.
What is physical description
When an author makes a reference to a place, person, a work of literature, or something that happened in history and expects the reader to know about the information.
What is an allusion
The way an author feels or their emotion towards the subject they are writing about.
What is tone
When the same consonant sound is repeated at the beginning of consecutive words in a sentence.
What is alliteration
A type of irony where the the audience knows something in the story that the characters don’t.
What is dramatic irony
When an author makes the reader do the work to figure out what a character is like through their actions, speech, inner thoughts, reactions, etc.
Indirect characterization
A type of figurative language that uses extreme exaggeration! Things that could never really happen.
What is a hyperbole
The feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader.
What is mood
A sound word
What is onomatopoeia
A type of irony that involves a difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
what is situational irony
What is reactions
The cultural or emotional meaning of a word.
What is connotation
A POV where the all knowing narrator zooms in on the thoughts and actions of one character.
What is third person limited
When you give a non human thing human characteristics.
What is personification
A type of irony Verbal where words mean something different from what a person actually says.
What is verbal irony
When an author tells the reader exactly what the character looks like and what their personality is like by using descriptive words.
What is direct characterization
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation
A POV where the all knowing narrator tells the thoughts and actions of more than one character.
What is third person omniscient
A cultural expression or phrase where the words/phrase have a different meaning than their literal ones.
What is an idiom
Using detail to create a picture, a smell, a sound, a feeling, or a taste of something.
What is imagery
One of the 5 types of characterization that involves what a character thinks and feels.
What is inner thoughts
When you use an object to represent an idea.
What is symbolism
Johnny Tremain is written in this POV
third person limited