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Question | Answer |
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Novel | THIS is a long story that is fictional (made-up) and is book-length. |
Onomatopoeia | THIS is forming words that imitate the sound of the objects they name, the sounds they make, or actions they refer to. |
Oxymoron | THIS is two words in a phrase that seem in conflict with each other. |
Parable | THIS is a short moral story often with animal characters. |
Paradox | THIS is a statement or proposition that seems to contradict itself, but is often true. |
Paraphrase | THIS is when you reword a selected passage of text in YOUR own words while keeping the basic meaning the same. |
Personification | THIS is a figure of speech in which animals, plants, ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics. |
Play | THIS is a story written to be performed in front of an audience. |
Plot | THIS is the sequence of related events that make up a story. |
Poem/Poetry | THIS is the type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and often musical language. |
Poetic Meter | THIS is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse. The arrangement of the syllables in a line makes a particular sound pattern, or beat. |
Point of View | THIS is the perspective from which the story is told. |
Prediction | THIS is an inference or guess made about the future. |