Reading Terms

Silly Sally sold seashells at the seashore is an example of what?

• metaphor
• alliteration
• connotation
• allegory

A central character who lacks conventional heroic qualities.

• simile
• denotation
• allegory
• anti-hero

The sun kissed her face is an example of what literary term?

• personification
• conflict
• allegory
• flashback

The dictionary definition of a word.

• connotation
• denotation
• anagram
• hyperbole

I am so tired I could sleep for a million years is an example of what?

• plot
• denotation
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Ramona is a pest is an example of what?

• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• alliteration

The leather is as soft as butter is an example of what?

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• denotation

A literary device in which the author jumbles of parts of a word to create a new word.

• anagram
• plot
• allegory
• conflict

The sequence of events that make up a story.

• conflict
• flashback
• hyperbole
• plot

In the Disney movie Ratatouille, the food critic takes a bite of food and the movie flashes to when he was a child eating his mother's dinner.  This is an example of what?

• hyperbole
• flashback
• flashforward
• plot