Elements of Plot
Figurative Language
Types of Literature
Figurative Language: Part Two
Miscellaneous
100
a person or animal who takes part in the action of a story
What is character?
100
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
A person's life story told by that person; a type of nonfiction.
What is autobiography?
100
A type of figurative language where a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
100
A conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
200
A problem in a story between characters; it can be internal or external.
What is conflict?
200
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, novel or work of art.
What is allusion?
200
A person's life story told by another person; a type of nonfiction.
What is biography?
200
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
200
A lesson taught by a literary work.
What is moral?
300
The main character in a story.
What is protagonist?
300
A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
Fiction written to be performed by actors.
What is drama?
300
A type of figurative language where the same words or phrases are repeated to emphasize a point.
What is repetition?
300
The speaker or character who tells the story.
What is narrator?
400
When and where the story takes place.
What is setting?
400
A comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as.
What is metaphor?
400
Literature that is about imaginary characters and events.
What is fiction?
400
A figure of speech characterized by exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
400
A group of lines in a poem.
What is stanza?
500
The central message of a story.
What is theme?
500
Use of words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
A type of literature that presents and explains real people, places, or events.
What is nonfiction?
500
An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has an entirely different meaning of its own.
What is idiom?
500
The way the author expresses his/her attitude through his/her writing.
What is tone?
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