Questions
- What is a metaphor?
- What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
- What is an allegory?
- What is alliteration?
- What is a haiku?
- Define irony.
- What is personification?
- What is a sonnet?
- What is foreshadowing?
- What does “protagonist” mean?
Answers
- A figure of speech comparing two unrelated things without using “like” or “as”.
- A simile uses “like” or “as”; a metaphor does not.
- A story with a hidden political or moral meaning.
- Repetition of the same starting sound in nearby words.
- A three-line Japanese poem with 5-7-5 syllables.
- Saying the opposite of what is meant or expected.
- Giving human qualities to non-human things.
- A 14-line poem, often with a specific rhyme scheme.
- Hinting at future events in a story.
- The main character in a narrative.