Short Story Terminology Practice- Gr. 9

He was as wise as an owl is an example of:

• A simile

• A metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

What is 1st person point of view?

• Story is told by an outsider and uses "He/She"

• Story is told by the main character and uses "I"

• Comparison with like/as

• Exaggeration

What is Personification?

• Exaggeration

• Human action/trait given to something non-human

• Repetition of a consonant sound

• Comparison with like/as

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the theme of a story?

• The series of events in a story.

• A reference to another work.

• The major life lesson or message.

• The character's personality traits.

Where a writer/narrator gives an advance hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. Any event, action, dialogue or thought that gives a clue to what is going to happen later on.

• Irony

• Foil

• Foreshadowing

• Anachronism

The perspective from which the story is told. Could be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.

• Climax

• Point of view

• Imagery

• Omniscient

An intentional reference to another literary work or piece of art that the reader should understand in order to make connections.

• Climax

• Allusion

• Freytag's Pyramid

• Hyperbole

A statement that seems to contradict itself but is nevertheless true.

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Foil

• Dialogue

When the reader knows something the characters do not.

• Characterization

• Dramatic Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

A person, place, object, or action that stands for something beyond itself.

• Mood

• Symbolism

• Diction

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A