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What is alliteration?
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs).
What is onomatopoeia?
The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is personification?
A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.
What is rhyme?
repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is figurative language?
writing that is not meant to be taken literally
What is an autobiography?
a person's life story (nonfiction)
What is a biography?
a person's life story told by another person (nonfiction)
What is a drama?
fiction written to be performed by actors (plays)
What is fiction?
literature that is about imaginary characters and events, fake
What is nonfiction?
writing that presents and explains real people, places, or events, not fake
What is character?
a person/animal who takes part in the action of a literary work
What is conflict?
a problem in a story between characters
What is flashback?
an interruption in fiction that relates an event from an earlier time
What is foreshadowing?
the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to happen
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is symbolism?
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD When one thing represents something else
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is a short story?
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD a brief work of fiction
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is a myth?
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD a fictional story using gods and goddesses
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is a fable?
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD a story using animal characters that teaches a lesson
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is an anecdote?
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD a brief story about an interesting or amusing event
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is a novel?
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD a long work of fiction
What is point of view?
the perspective from which a story is told
What is first person point of view?
When the narrator is in the story, pronouns such as I and we are used
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is omniscient point of view?
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD The narrator is all knowing
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is suspense?
a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work
What is implied theme?
a central message in a literary work that is not clearly stated, the reader must analyze what the author is trying to teach them
Template by Modified by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Chad Vance, CCISD What is dialect?
the form of a language spoken by people in a certain region
What is genre?
a type of literature
What is imagery?
a word/phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses
What is a simile?
comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a metaphor?
comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as