Repetition
Comparison
Characters
Random
Events
100
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
Comparison without the use of comparative terms.
What is a metaphor?
100
Character who works against the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
100
Word choice
What is diction?
100
Turning point in a story
What is climax?
200
Repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
200
Comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
The person speaking in the poem, like the narrator in prose - not always the poet
What is a speaker?
200
Combination of opposites e.g. jumbo shrimp
What is oxymoron?
200
Hints about what will happen later
What is foreshadowing?
300
Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
What is repetition?
300
Short composition on a particular theme/topic.
What is an essay?
300
Main protagonist in an epic poem.
What is an epic hero?
300
Endows human-like characteristics to the nonhuman.
What is personification?
300
A minor plot that relates in some way to the main story
What is subplot?
400
Repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme.
What is stanza?
400
Intent and actual meaning differ
What is irony?
400
Major character that encounters conflict and is changed by it; "round character"
What is a dynamic character?
400
A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph
What is parallel structure?
400
Events after the climax, leading to the resolution.
What is falling action?
500
Conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea
What is a stereotype?
500
Word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers to
What is an antecedent?
500
Character who does not undergo substantial change; "flat character"
What is static character?
500
The mood the reader gets from the setting, characterization, and the tone of the narrator
What is atmosphere?
500
End of the story where loose ends are tied up
What is resolution?
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