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A major character who opposes the main character in a story or play.

What is an antagonist?

100

The means by which an author describes the appearance and personality of a person in a story or play.

What is characterization?

100

The point of view of a piece of writing in which the narrator refers to himself as “I.”

What is First Person Point of View?

100

DOUBLE JEOPARDY:

The use of words that sound like/imitate what they mean.

What is onomatopoeia?

100

Often called "the hero" (but is not necessarily heroic) the main character of a novel, play, or story?

What is protagonist?

200

The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.

What is alliteration?

200

The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak.

What is climax?

200

A long poem narrating the adventures of a great heroic figure. (Ex. the Odyssey)

What is an epic or epic poetry?

200

"Mary is weird" "No, Mary has a heart of gold, she is just a late bloomer." 

What is metaphor?

200

A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word?

What is a synonym?

300

A reference to something or someone, often literary.

What is an allusion?

300

To explain how two things are alike and dissimilar?

What is compare and contrast?

300

A story that illustrates a moral, often using animals as the characters.

(Ex. The Tortoise and the Hare)

What is a fable?

300

A long speech by one character in a play or story.

What is monologue?

300

“The flames reached for the child cowering in the corner."

What is personification?

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY:

In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in the words

Ex: Go slow over the road. 

What is assonance?

400

The element that moves a plot forward. This can be internal or external.

What is conflict?

400

A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

400

A legend that embodies the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena.

What is a myth?

400

When phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure. (not repetition)

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true..."

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia..."

 

What is parallelism?

500

A literary technique in which two unrelated objects are compared for their shared qualities. Unlike a simile or a metaphor IT is NOT a figure of speech.

Ex ___: kitten :: dog: puppy

What is an analogy?

500

A feeling or idea that a word has based on context, not just its literal meaning

What is connotation?

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY:

A literary device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past?

What is flashback?

500

A phrase made up of two seemingly opposite words. 


ex: jumbo shrimp, bittersweet, friendly fire 

What is an oxymoron?

500
This type of text structure shows how two or more things are alike or different.
What is comparison and contrast?
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