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Figurative Language
Conveys meaning, mood, and images
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A contrast between what is said or done and what is really intended to be said or done | Irony |
| a reference to a well-known place, literary or art work, famous person, or historical event | Allusion |
| a device used to present an idea or principle that extends over an entire work | allegory |
| extreme exaggeration | Hyperbole |
| an extended explanation of something unfamiliar or difficult to explain by comparison with something familiar | Analogy |
| an expression whose literal meaning is not signified by what the words suggests | Idiom |
| The use of any words that evoke sensations of sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste | Imagery |
| chain of related events that take place in a story | Plot |
| struggle between opposing forces | Conflict |
| conflict in which a struggle is pitted against an outside force | External conflict |
| conflict in which a struggle occurs within a character | Internal Conflict |
| introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation | Exposition |
| moment at which the conflict is introduced | Inciting Incident |
| complications of the plot and building of suspense | Rising Action |
| turning point of the action when intensity | Climax |
| events that occur after the climax as the intensity subsides | Falling Action |
| conflict is resolved or comes to an end | Resolution |
| people involved in the action of a story | Characters |
| the time and place of the events in the story | Setting |
| a difference between appearance and reality, or expectation and result | Irony |
| what is said is different from what is meant | Verbal Irony |
| an event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the reader or audience | Situational Irony |
| a difference between what a character thinks and what reader or audience knows | Dramatic Irony |
| the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage | Mood |
| vantage point from which a story is told | Point of View |
| the narrator is involved in the action | First person point of view |
| narrator is not involved in the action | Third person limited |
| The narrator, who is not involved in the story can see into the minds of all the characters | Third person omniscient |
| the general idea about life that the author wants to communicate | Theme |
| the main character or most important character in a story | Protagonists |
| character who opposes the main character | Antagonists |
| shows many different traits-faults as well as virtues | Round character |
| shows only one trait | Flat character |
| develops and grows during the course of the stoy | Dynamic character |
| does not change | Static character |
Created by:
Logan perry
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