Life As We Knew It-Fall

A type of figurative language that uses “like” or “as” to compare two unlike things

• Irony

• Simile

• Flashback

• Allusion

The author’s use of clues to prepare the reader for events that will happen later in the story

• Simile

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Foreshadow

An interruption in the story that tells about something that happened in the past

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Flashback

• Allusion

A figure of speech that compares two things without using “like” or “as”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Foreshadow

An indirect reference to a well known person, place, or thing

• Simile

• Allusion

• Irony

• Flashback

A contrast between the way things seem and the way they really are

• Foreshadow

• Allusion

• Irony

• Simile

“Suddenly I felt like I was surrounded by death”

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Irony

• Simile

“I was thinking about that man. The day we bought groceries, with the baby on the way.”

• Simile

• Flashback

• Allusion

• Metaphor

“Maybe everything is fine with the world and we just don’t know it. The joke would sure be on us.”

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Flashback

• Irony

“I was born in this house and I would like to die in it.”

• Foreshadow

• Allusion

• Simile

• Irony