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Just the Basics
100
A comparison of two unlike objects using the words like or as.
What is Simile?
100
Words whose sounds express their meaning.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
An expression that has meaning different from the meaning of its individual words.
What is an Idiom?
100
A conversation, an episode, or an event that happened in the past, usually before the beginning of a story.
What is Flashback?
100
The attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is Personification?
200
A comparison of two unlike objects.
What is Metaphor?
200
The repetition of the initial consonant sound in two or more words of a phrase of line of poetry.
What is Alliteration?
200
Word play involving words with different meaning, but similar spelling.
What is a Pun?
200
An event that will occur in the future and it is told to make a point in the story-opposite to flashback.
What is Flashforward?
200
A feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
What is Mood?
300
Something that stands for, represents or suggests another thing.
What is Symbol?
300
A repetition of similar vowel sounds usually stressed in syllables.
What is Assonance?
300
A statement that seems to contradict itself, but is true. Any person, thing, or situation showing obvious contradictory things or ideas.
What is a Paradox?
300
Clues to future events.
What is Foreshadowing?
300
A writer's attitude toward his/her subject through the use of diction, detail, or direct statements.
What is Tone?
400
A resemblance between two different things.
What is an Analogy?
400
The literary/dictionary meaning of a word.
What is Denotation?
400
Opposite or contradictory ideas or terms that are combined.
What is an Oxymoron?
400
A sudden revelation or insight into the real meaning of something important.
What is an Epiphany?
400
The central idea(s) the writer intends to share with the reader. The ideas are about life or about people and their actions.
What is Theme?
500
An indirect reference to another literary work (another) story) or to a famous person, place, or event.
What is Allusion?
500
The attitudes and feelings associated with a word (contrast with denotation).
What is Connotation?
500
An expression or meaning opposite to the stated one.
What is Irony?
500
Something that deceives (confuses) people by creating a misleading (fake) impression or visual of reality.
What is Illusion?
500
Mental images, as produced by memory or imagination. These are created by words or phrases that appeal to the five senses.
What is Imagery?
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