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Label each example with the correct figurative language. I'm glad I know sign language; it's pretty handy.

Pun

What poetic device is used here? If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Rhyme

What literary device is used here? When John stepped onto the field a year later, he could still see his teammate run across the plate to win the championship game.

Flashback

What literary device is used here? John felt a cold chill run down his neck as he entered the dark alley alone.

Foreshadowing

Label each example with the correct figurative language. I have tons of money saved up in the bank.

Hyperbole

Label each example with the correct figurative language. If you think you can win, you can win.

Repetition

Label each example with the correct figurative language. Tim took tons of tools to make toys.

Alliteration

Label each example with the correct figurative language. My boyfriend is in the doghouse.

Idiom

What literary device is used here? The bright sun warmed the soft, green grass as the clouds drifted through the baby blue sky.

Imagery

Label each example with the correct figurative language. The car whooshed past me in a blur.

Onomatopoeia

Label each example with the correct figurative language. Busy as a bee.

Simile

Label each example with the correct figurative language. The test was a breeze.

Metaphor

Label each example with the correct figurative language. The table danced across the room during the earthquake.

Personification

What type of conflict would represent a person running a stop sign?

Man vs Society

What type of conflict would represent a tornado tearing down a house?

Man vs Nature

What type of conflict would represent a fear of heights?

Man vs Self

What type of conflict would represent a fight between two people?

Man vs Man

_______ _______ happens when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate.

Situaltional Irony

______ ______ happens when someone says something other than what they mean.

Verbal Irony

______ ______ happens when the audience knows something that the characters do not know.

Dramatic Irony

Foreshadowing is one literary technique that authors use to build ____________.

Suspense

The feeling that a narrative evokes in the reader.

Mood

The problem within the story.

Conflict

Teaches the reader a lesson from the story.

Theme

The events that make up a story.

Plot

The time and place in which a story takes place.

Setting

A character that changes throughout the story.

Dynamic Character

The way the author presents the character to the audience: dialogue, thoughts, actions, reactions from others & physical description

Characterization

A character that stays the same throughout the story.

Static Character

Literature which contains works of imaginative narration. Fiction or Nonfiction

Fiction

A conclusion or judgement based on prior knowledge and what's going on in the text. An educated guess.

Inference

The class of text comprising works based upon facts and reality. Fiction or Nonfiction

Nonfiction

The author reveals a character's attributes by telling the reader outright.

Direct Characterization

The narrator knows everything about every character. They use the pronouns he, she, and they.

Third Person Omniscient

The narrator tells a story without describing any chracters's thoughts, opinions, or feelings.

Third Person Objective

The narrator tells you what a single chracter is thinking or feeling. They use the pronouns he, she, and they.

Third Person Limited

The ____ _____ _____ is the perspective from which the story is told.

Point of View

This point of view is rarely used. The narrator uses "you" like in a recipe

Second Person

What is the author's purpose when writing? Hint (PIE)

persuade, inform, entertain

This point of view is when the narrator is a character in the story. They use pronouns I, me, my, we, etc.

First Person