Literary Language
A return to an earlier time in the course of a narrative to introduce prior information.
What is a flashback.
The base element of the word.
What is the root.
Life is like a box of chocolates
What is a simile.
Five line, humorous poem
What is a limerick
Name the two types of conflict.
What is internal and external.
The emotional atmosphere produced in the reader by an author’s use of language.
What is mood.
Common prefix that means "self".
What is "auto".
Time is a flat circle.
What is a metaphor.
A song-like narrative poem, usually featuring rhyme, rhythm, and refrain.
What is a ballad.
What are the two types of characters in a story?
What is static and dynamic or Protagonist and Antagonist.
The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing.
Common prefix meaning "not, none"
What is "un" OR What is "dis".
The repetition of initial consonant sounds that are close together.
What is alliteration.
Poetry with neither regular meter nor rhyme scheme.
What is free verse.
Name the two points of view and explain the difference in each.
What is first person (the "I" perspective) and third person (narrator is outside of the story).
This is used to express a writer’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone.
Common root meaning to "to look/see".
What is either "spec"/"spect".
The sea mourned for poor Annabel Lee.
What is personification.
The rhyme scheme of this section of a poem is __________?
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter blandness.
What is ABABCC.
Name three of the 6 elements of the plot of a story.
What are exposition, initiating event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
To make judgments or draw conclusions based on what an author has implied.
What is an inference.
Common root which means "writing".
What is "graph".
Jessica is such a Scrooge.
What is an allusion.
A poem that has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second, and 5 syllables again in the third line.
What is a haiku?
Two prefixes which mean "before" and "after"
What are "pre" and "post"