Literary Terms
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Potpourri
100
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Considered the finest Arthurian romance in English.
What is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
100
A mythical story about the historical Sumerian King of Uruk.
What is the epic of Gilgamesh?
100
The first great national novelist who wrote The Last of the Mohicans.
Who is James Fenimore Cooper?
100
Poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote "Dream Deferred".
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
The main idea or message in a story.
What is a theme?
200
She wrote poems that were mainly based on her relationship with her husband Robert.
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
200
Considered to be one fo the world's finest and earliest novels, written by a Japanese woman, Murasake Shikibu.
What is The Tale of Genji?
200
Transcendentalist who wrote about nature and truth.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
Monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaks his/her thoughts aloud.
What is a soliloquy?
300
Person or thing in conflict with the main character.
What is an antagonist?
300
He wrote The Faerie Queene and focused on themes of pastoral beauty and good and evil.
Who is Edmund Spenser?
300
A deeply nuanced apology, written by Virgil, for the goals and aspirations of the Roman Empire founded by Caesar.
What is the Aeneid?
300
He invented detective fiction and wrote The Raven.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
Sensory detail in a work used to evoke feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object.
What is imagery?
400
A difference between how something appears to be and how it really is.
What is irony?
400
He wrote A Tale of Two Cities.
Who is Charles Dickens?
400
The longest traditional poem in Greek poetry and heroic epics.
What is the Iliad?
400
She wrote nearly 8000 poems on love, nature, faith, and death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
He wrote Death of a Salesman.
Who is Arthur Miller?
500
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
500
With his friend William, he wrote Lyrical Ballads and started the Romantic movement.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
500
A Columbian-born author and journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and a pioneer of the Latin American "boom".
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
500
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
500
Words that are spelled identically and possibly pronounced the same.
What are homophones?
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