Complete this statement: Writers use figurative language and sound devices to make their poems or stories sound more _____________.

Interesting!

This is the most exciting or interesting part of the story.

Climax

This is figurative language term where an author makes a comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”

Simile

Every story has this element of fiction, otherwise the story would be very boring.

Conflict (Bonus: What are the four types? Character vs…)

This is the two-word term for when an author describes a character using clear adjectives. (Ex. The shy boy asked the beautiful girl to the dance.)

Direct Characterization

What is the term for when the narrator of a poem or story is also the main character of the story and always use the pronoun “I”?

First Person Narrator

This is a figurative language term when an author makes a comparison without using “like” or “as”

Metaphor

What is the style of poetry when the author expresses emotions?

Lyric Poetry

What is the figurative language tool an author uses to give human abilities or traits to something that is not human?

Personification

This term describes a narrator who is outside the story, describing the thoughts and feeling of all characters.

Third Person Omniscient

The assignment was a piece of cake. He is a pig. These are examples of what type of figurative language?

Metaphor

This term describes the pattern of rhyme in a poem, which is often noted with letters of the alphabet.

Rhyme Scheme

When the reader uses his or her background knowledge to make ideas and predictions about a story, this skill is used.

Inference

This term describes the author’s attitude when writing a poem or story.

Tone

These are hints in the story that let the reader know what is to come later on.

Foreshadowing

What term describes a style of poetry with no real rhyme or pattern?

Free Verse Poetry

The cherry popsicle tasted delicious on that warm, summer day. This is an example of what type of figurative language?

Imagery

This term describes the repetition of the same sound at the ends of words

Rhyme

This is the term for the beginning of the story (when the reader is introduced to the characters and setting)

Exposition

This term describes the atmosphere created by a poem or story.

Mood

The wind stood up and give a shout. Time quietly slipped away. These are examples of what type of figurative language?

Personification

This is the two-word term for when an author describes a character through the thoughts and words of other characters in a story.

Indirect Characterization

This is the part of a story where little events lead up to the most exciting part.

Rising Action

This term is a sound device where words sound exactly like they are spelled

Onomatopoeia

This is a two-word term for using the words around a highlight or underlined word in a passage to give hints as to its meaning.

Context Clues

This is the part of the story, near the end, when the loose ends begin to wrap up.

Falling Action

What does PLORPE stand for?

Predict, Locate, Organize, Read, Purpose, Examine

This term describes the organization of lines of a poem into groups

Stanzas

This is a two-word term to describe the key concept in a paragraph, story, or poem.

Main Idea

I heard a knock on my door, and then the pow and bang of fireworks. What type of sound device is in this sentence?

Onomatopoeia

This is another word for the end of a story.

Resolution

“I love homework slightly more than I love lima beans,” the boy said sarcastically. This sentence uses what type of literary device?

Tone

What is the literary device when an object in a poem or story stands for a deeper meaning?

Symbolism

The two main characters of a story can also be called these terms…

Protagonist and Antagonist

This is the term for when the author paints a picture in a reader’s mind by using sensory details.

Imagery

This is a type of narrator who talks directly to the reader, using the pronoun “you.”

Second Person Narration

This is a figurative language term for expressions that shouldn’t be taken literally. (Ex. “It’s raining cats and dogs” to mean it’s raining heavily)

Idiom

This a style of poetry in which the author tells a story.

Narrative Poem

The line “it was an eerily dark and stormy night” creates what type of literary device?

Mood

Describe a major difference between poems and short stories.

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This term describes how the author develops a character, mostly through their words, thoughts, and actions.

Characterization

What is the type of narrator that is outside the story and uses the pronouns “he” “she” “it” and “they?”

Third Person Narrator

This term describes the repetition of consonant sounds at the start of at least two nearby words.

Alliteration

The speaker in a poem or story is called what?

Narrator

This term describes the message or lesson an author wants the read to learn from reading a poem or story.

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