Pt Of View & Figures Of Speech Vocabulary

Front 1

First person

Back 1

A story is told by one character & uses the word "I".

Front 2

Third Person

Back 2

A story told by one character using pronouns such as HIm or Them

Front 3

Omniscient

Back 3

This tells the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of any or all the characters.

Front 4

Limited Omniscient

Back 4

This sees the action through the eyes of usually just one character.

Front 5

Objective

Back 5

This does not enter into the mind of the character. The story is told through the actions not the thoughts of the character.

Front 6

Figure of Speech

Back 6

figurative expression that is imaginative rather than factual.

Front 7

Personification

Back 7

Figurative language that gives human characteristics to an object.

Front 8

Simile

Back 8

compares one thing to a different thing using like or as.

Front 9

Metaphor

Back 9

Compares one thing with a different thing without using like or as.

Front 10

Irony

Back 10

A literary expression in which the intended meaning of the words are opposite their usual sense.

Front 11

Hyperbole

Back 11

Exaggeration for effect, not to be taken literally.

Front 12

Idiom

Back 12

An expression that has a special meaning which is different from the usual meaning of the individual words.