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100
What is an inherent part of any story or poem and is essential to the structure of any written form? Also known as the afterword.
What is an epilogue?
100
The literary device term that refers to the use of indicative words/phrases and hints that set the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
100
A literary device that contains several layers of meaning, often concealed at first sight, and is representative of several other aspects/concepts/traits than those that are visible in the literal translation alone.
What is symbol?
100
The intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events
What is suspense?
100
Refers to a literary practive wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability.
What is amplification?
200
The literary device term that refers to the use of phrases and words that are noted for possessing an extensive degree of notable loveliness or melody in the sound they create.
What is an euphony?
200
When the author uses words and phrases to create "mental images" for the reader.
What is imagery?
200
A literary device wherein the writer jumbles up parts of the word to create a new word.
What is an anagram?
200
The term that refers to the practice of changing the conventional placement of words.
What is inversion?
200
Refers to the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena, and animals.
What is personification?
300
The term used to refer to the practice placing together similarly structure related phrases, words or clauses.
What is faulty parallelism?
300
A literary device that allows the author to use contradictory, contrasting concepts placed together in a manner that actually ends up making sense in a strange, and slightly complex manner.
What is an oxymoron?
300
Any element, subject, idea or concept that is constantly present through the entire body of literature.
What is motif?
300
Refers to a single, related chunk of lines in poetry
What is a stanza?
300
The base topic or focus that acts as a foundation for the entire literary piece.
What is theme?
400
A literary device wherein the writer/author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following, or events that have happened before the events that are currently being unfolded in the story.
What is a flashback?
400
A figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place, event, or literary work by way of a passing reference.
What is an allusion?
400
A literary device that depicts the manner in which a story is narrated/depicted and who it is that tells the story.
What is point of view?
400
A literary device wherein the author places a person, concept, palce, idea or theme parallel to another.
What is juxtaposition?
400
A series of unfortunate events by which one or more of the literary characters in the story undergo several misfortunes, which finally culminate into a disaster of 'epic proportions'.
What is tragedy?
500
A practice of forming a rhyme in only one lone line of verse, also known as the middle rhyme.
What is internal rhyme?
500
Refers to the actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing
What is syntax?
500
Refers to the use of concepts/ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when pllace together they hold significant value on several levels.
What is a paradox?
500
The perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development.
What is tone?
500
A literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group.
What is an alliteration?
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