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Name that Genre!

Figurative language: giving human characteristics to a non-human.

Figurative language: Using an exaggeration for effect

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Using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to criticize people's stupidity or with politics

Which of the following is the denotation for difficult?

What am I? Her eyes sparkled like fresh dew drops in the night sky.

Plot: the most exciting part of the story

What am I? An army of ants attacked my bare feet!

Which of the following is an example of a positive connotation?

Figurative language: making a comparison using like or as to compare two unlike things.

What am I? He was a baby when he didn’t get his way.

What am I? The story suddenly is interrupted by a memory from ten years ago.

FL: The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginnings of words or syllables

Poetry: rhythm of a poem

LT: a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects

Plot: where the characters and setting are presented

Plot: another name for resolution

Literary terms: The author’s attitude toward the subject

Literary terms: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure

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Plot: the events of the story begin to occur

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Literary terms: to make a logical guess based on the clues provided

Literary terms: use of images to represent ideas or qualities.

Poetry: group of lines in a poem

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly

Literary terms: the recurrence of an action or event.

Which of the following is a negative connotation?

What am I? The wind whispered my name as it gently jogged through the trees.

Plot: the problem of the story

What am I? I am a hint of what may happen later on.

FL: an expression whose meaning cannot be understood by taking the words literally

A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.

Literary terms: uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language.

What am I? He went from the frying pan to the fire when he tried to explain his behavior.

Literary terms: the central message of the work of fiction the author is trying to convey

What am I? Man vs Man, Man vs Self, Man vs Nature, Man vs Society.

Poetry: words that imitate or suggest the sound of what they describe.

Figurative language: making a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as