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Figurative Language
Authors
Main Characters
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Time, places, and culture of a story
Setting
Stage of plot that introduces characters, setting, and
conflict.
Exposition
When a character struggles with another character or
outside force.
External Conflict
Author or speaker’s attitude toward a subject
Tone
When readers know things that the characters in the
story do not know.
Dramatic Irony
Compares two unlike items using “like” or “as”
simile
Direct use of exagerration
hyperbole
Giving inanimate objects or animals living or human
traits
personification
Using language that appeals to the five sense
Imagery
Words that imitate sound(+100 for correct spelling)
onomatopoeia
Who is Gaston?
A bug in a peach
Who is the protagonist in “The Most Dangerous
Game”?
Rainsford
Who is Zaroff’s foil?
Ivan
Who is the narrator in “The Cask of Amontillado”
Montresor
Montresor tells Fortunato that he considered going to
someone else to ask about the Amontillado. Who
does Montresor consider asking?
Luchesi
Author of “The Cask of Amontillado”
Edgar Allen Poe
Author of “The Most Dangerous Game”
Richard Connell
Author of “The Gift of the Magi”
O. Henry
Author of “The Lady, or the Tiger”
Frank R. Stockton
Author of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
James Thurber
Author of “Gaston”
William Saroyan
“Throw on the power lights! Rev her up to 8,500! We’re
going through! Switch on the No. 8 auxiliary!”
Walter Mitty
“Let’s put our Christmas presents away and keep ‘em a while. They’re too nice to use
as just presents.”
Jim
“Cut it off and sold it. Don’t you like me just as well,
anyhow? I’m me without my hair, ain’t I?”
Della
“Remember to get those overshoes while I’m having my
hair done.”
Mrs. Mitty
“The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I
shall not die of a cough.”
Fortunato
At the end of “Gaston,” who is the girl more like, her father or her mother?
Mother
Name one similarity between the William
Saroyan and the father in “Gaston”
DivorcedLived in ParisBig mustache
Of what disease did Edgar Allen Poe’s mother, foster mother, and wife all die?
Tuberculous
From what point of view is the final section of “The
Lady, or the Tiger” written?
2nd person POV
Final Jeopardy:
