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Elements of a Short Story and Figurative Language
Elements of a Short Story and Figurative Language
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A #english quiz with a focus on elements of a short story.
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Author tells the story using the 3rd person,the author knows all that is being done,said,felt
Last person
First person
Omniscient
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As warm as toast
Simile
Mood
Personification
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Lightning danced across the sky.
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
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Comparison made between things which are essentially not alike.
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
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The time and place where a story happens
Both
Place
Time
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The place of the narrator in the story
Point of View
Mood
Plot
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As big as an elephant
Simile
Theme
Metaphor
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Fight like cats and dogs
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
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This is the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.
Exposition
Plot
Falling Action
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My alarm clock yells at me every morning.
Mood
Hyperbole
Personification
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Occurs at the start of a short story; characters are introduced and the setting of the story.
Rising Action
Climax
Exposition
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An external struggle with outside forces
Person vs. Person
Person vs. Society
Person vs. Nature
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The snow is a white blanket.
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
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A life lesson, moral or message about life or human nature that is shown in a literary work.
Plot
Setting
Theme
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Like a moth to the flame
Climax
Simile
Setting
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Water plops into pond
Metahpor
Expression
Onomatopoeia
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Author tell the story from the third person, but limits observations
First Person
Omniscient
Limited Omniscient
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Refers to words whose very sound is very close to the sound they are meant to depict.
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Imagery
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An internal struggle concerning emotion and decision .
Person vs. Person
rPerson vs. Nature
Person vs. Themselves
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You could have knocked me over with a feather
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
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The author offers no comments on the characters or their actions.
Last Person
First Person
Objective
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A prevailing emotional quality or character
Theme
Setting
Mood
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Literary device where the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate the statement
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
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Are marked by the use of the words ‘as’ or ‘such as’ or ‘like’.
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
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Bloop
Falling Action
Onomatopoeia
Rising Action
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I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
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The reader sees and knows only as much as the narrator
First Person
Third Person
Last Person
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That book was so popular, it flew off the shelves.
Personification
Setting
Metaphor
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When something that is not human is given human-like qualities, this is known as
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Hyperbole
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This part of the story begins to develop the conflict(s).
Falling Action
Resolution
Rising Action
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Oreo: Milk's favorite cookie
Personification
Hyperbole
Love
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External struggle between two or more individuals
Person v. Nature
Person v. Person
Person v. Themselves
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The detective’s face was wood as he listened to her story.
Setting
Metaphor
Plot
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The following are examples of: click, bam, flutter, screech, slap, swoosh and thud
Personification
Plot
Onomatopoeia
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Themes are
Implied
Explicit
Both
