Historic Narrative Vocabulary Quiz

Applying a concept/trait to everyone within a group. Very similar to stereotypes. Example: All sports car drivers are aggressive. Every dog hates cats. *

• Plot

• Generalization

• Source

• Simile

Using the words “it”, “him”, “they”, and “them” when the writer has not provided a clear antecedent. Example: He went to the mall to buy it. Who is he and what is it?

• Dialogue

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Vague Pronouns

This picture is an example of a ______.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

The picture is an example of a _________.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Character Actions

• Hyperbole

Peter Pan's Peanut Butter is the peanut butter picky people pick. This sentence is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

It's raining cats and dogs is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

An extreme exaggeration used to make a point, like I am buried under a mountain of homework is an example of _________.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Plot

• Metaphor

Giving human characteristics and traits to non-living things! An example would be the leaves danced in the wind.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Sound words like BOOM and BANG!

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

This is the overall message or moral of the story. Ex. Money can't buy you happiness!

• Plot

• Character Actions

• Historic Narrative

• Theme