Parts of Literary Work
Type of Literary Work
Literary Devices
Literary Elements
Other
100
The events leading up to the climax.
What is rising action
100
A comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement.
What is humor.
100
A deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole.
100
conflict of man vs self
What is internal conflict.
100
A word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers to.
What is antecedent
200
A minor plot that relates in some way to the main story.
What is subplot.
200
A classification of a work.
What is genre.
200
A comparison without the use of comparative terms.
What is metaphor.
200
The events after the climax, leading to the resolution.
What is falling action.
200
The omission of a word or several words.
What is ellipsis.
300
The background to the story.
What is setting.
300
An account of someone's life story.
What is biography.
300
A combination of opposite.
What is oxymoron.
300
The author's personal favoring towards a subject.
What is author's bias.
300
Not figurative, accurate to the word.
What is literal
400
The main thought expressed by a work.
What is theme.
400
A long narrative poem in formal, elevated style that chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation.
What is an epic.
400
A special language of a profession or group.
What is jargon.
400
The mood the reader gets from the setting, characterization, and the tone of the narrator.
What is atmosphere
400
The repetition of consonants.
What is consonance.
500
Something that is itself and a sign of something else.
What is symbol.
500
The type of informational diction
What is dialect.
500
repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis.
What is repetition.
500
The character's reasons for the pursuit of his/her goal.
What is character motivation.
500
Endows human-like characteristics to the nonhuman.
What is personification.
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