Figurative Language Pink Notes Test

Action and events that take place in the story and build up to the critical moment when the main conflict is confronted

• rising action
• inciting incident
• personification
• falling action

Use of any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief or value

• idiom
• mood
• symbol
• hyperbole

Clues that suggest events that have yet to occur

• paradox
• foreshadowing
• irony
• exposition

Interrupts the peace and balance of the situation and one or more of the characters comes into conflict with an outside force, himself, or another character

• inciting incident
• conflict
• rising action
• falling action

A reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place, or thing

• allusion
• idiom
• exposition
• pun

Play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply different meanings

• mood
• tone
• irony
• pun

Events occur after the climax and lead up to the closure and conclusion of the story

• personification
• rising action
• falling action
• allusion

Contrast between appearance and reality; when one thing is expected and the exact opposite occurs

• idiom
• tone
• pun
• irony

A character that does not grow or change throughout the story, that ends as he/she began

• conflict
• dynamic character
• paradox
• static character

Deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration

• paradox
• tone
• symbol
• hyperbole