Figurative Language & Plot Structure

Bill & Ted

Andy & Julia

Jade & Jack

Jeremy & Jill

A figure of speech that directly compares two things by highlighting the similarities between them by using words like as, and like.

A figure of speech that indirectly compares two things by comparing one thing to another.

Words that sound the same by look different.

A word with an opposite meaning to another word.

You sit on a throne of lies!

Heavy hearted.

Pure as snow.

A rollercoaster of emotions.

All adjectives and adverbs.

The beginning of a sentence.

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

The rhyming component of pairs of sentences together in a successive sequence.

This point in the plot is designed to provide the largest amount of tension in the audience.

This point in the plot offers a solution to the central conflict introduced in the beginning of the story.

To build suspense.

To have something occur to disrupt, challenge or create a conflict/problem for the protagonist, which triggers the rising action.

My mum named my bike "the pink and purple people-eater".

You're so pretty and smart, and I am ugly and dumb.

Everywhere Laura looked there was orange and red leaves falling from the branches above.

The firetruck was yellow, which I thought was an colour.