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| Intended to teach or instruct a moral. |
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| A literary work that represents a situation through character and plot of a different story. |
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| A literary work that pokes fun at a situation through showing the irony of the situation. |
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| When you express something by noting the opposite. EX: Are you hungry? I am not full. |
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| A type of metaphor that uses part of something to represent the whole thing. EX: All hands on deck. |
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| A type of metaphor that uses something closely related to the object to refer to the object itself. EX: The crown taxed its people.... |
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| When a sentence begins with the same word or phrase that ended the previous sentence. EX: The book was really good. Good books are hard to find. |
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| When a sentence begins and ends with the same word or phrase. EX: The straw was the ideal of all straws. |
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| When opposites are used to describe the same thing. EX: The night was dark and light. |
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| When the parallel structure of a sentence is reversed from the first phrase to the second. EX: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Also, One for all and all for one. |
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| When there is no conjunctions in a sentence. EX: The dog was white, small, fluffy. |
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| When there are an excessive amount of conjunctions. EX: The dog was white and small and fluffy. |
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| When the beginning of multiple sentences begin with the same phrase. EX; Pasta is good. Pasta has lots of carbs. Pasta is my friend. |
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| When in a poem or a song the line is repeated multiple times. |
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| The opposite of anaphora, when multiple sentences END with the same phrase. EX: My favorite food is watermelon. I enjoy eating watermelon. In the summer, I love eating watermelon. |
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| A word that is noise or sound. EX: Quack. Also, Clash. |
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| An extreme exaggeration for effect. EX: I am so hungry I could eat a horse. |
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| When you use a word or phrase to soften the blow of what you mean. EX: He passed away. |
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| almost like an apositive. A phrase that sums up someone's being. EX: Zeus, the bringer of rain. |
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| When three or more words in a row start with the same letter. EX: Sally saw Susan at the mall. |
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| When the consonants in a word are repeated from word to word. EX: Sally took the shook book and ran. |
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| When something represents something else but is not compared using like or as. EX: She is a flower. |
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| When two things are compared using like or as. EX: My dog is like an ostrich. |
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| When you give human qualities to inanimate objects. EX: The trees whispered wistfully. |
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| A phrase that cannot be translated between languages and does not mean its literal meaning. EX: He was pushing up daisies. |
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| What is situational irony? |
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| When something happens that is the opposite of what is expected to happen. EX: An escalator leading up to a fitness gym. |
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| When a character does not know something that the reader does. |
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| When in a poem there is no puncuation to end a line and the line continues to the next line with no punctuation. |
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| When two lines of a poem are separated by punctuation. |
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| When something refers to another thing expecting that the reader will know what it is. EX: Charles Wallace smiled like the Cheshire Cat. |
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| What is 'round character'? |
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| A character that is describes so well that the reader almost believes it's a real person. |
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| What is a dynamic character? |
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| A character that changes throughout the story. |
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| What is a flat character? |
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| A character that is obviously not a real person. |
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| What is a static character? |
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| A character that remains the same throughout the story. |
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| What is a foil character? |
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| A character in a story that has different characteristics than another character, used to make the reader better understand the other character. EX: Govinda and Siddhartha |
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| Whatever or whomever is against the protagonist. |
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| Indirect characterization |
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| What are the five methods of indirect characterization? |
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1. Action
2. Speech
3. Looks
4. How they are viewed by others.
5. Their thoughts |
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| The main character is also the narrator |
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| When the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. |
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| When the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of two or more characters. |
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| When the narrator is not the main character and does not put any of his or her opinions into the story. |
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| What is an internal conflict? |
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| Human vs. self. When the conflict is known only by the character and involves his or her actions/decisions. |
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| Human vs. human, human vs. society, human vs. nature. When the conflict happens externally. |
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| Narrator that puts his or her own feelings into the story |
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| The beginning of a story. Can include setting, characters, and conflict. |
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| Parts of the story that lead up to the climax. |
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| The most eventful part of the story. |
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| The results of the climax |
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| The ending of the story, where the conflict is finally resolved. |
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| A narrator that does not necessarily know parts of information of the story or corrupts it. Cannot be trusted. |
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