Literary Terms Week One
Literary Terms Week Two
Literary Terms Week Three
Literary Terms Week Four
Literary Terms Week Five
100
The part of a play or work of fiction in which the background to the main conflict is introduced.
What is exposition?
100
The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing and situation.
What is tone?
100
The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an account of a person's life.
What is theme?
100
An article in a newspaper.
What is editorial?
100
The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
What is repetition?
200
Is what happens in a story leading up to the most exciting part of a story.
What is rising action?
200
The general atmosphere created by the author's words.
What is mood?
200
The set in time earlier than the main story.
What is flashback?
200
a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
What is memoir?
200
An arrangement of a certain number of lines.
What is stanza?
300
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something.
What is climax?
300
The pervading tone or mood of a place, situation.
What is atmosphere?
300
The warning or indication of a future event.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Refers to objects or events that are available to the senses.
What is concrete?
300
A literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines.
What is couplet?
400
The parts of the story after the climax and before the very end.
What is falling action?
400
The action of solving a problem.
What is resolution?
400
An account of a person's life written by that person.
What is autobiography?
400
The literal dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
400
Is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of three lines.
What is a triplet?
500
A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
What is a short story?
500
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something.
What is climax?
500
An account of someone's life written by another person.
What is biography?
500
Is a literary device that creates a relationship based on parallels or connections between two ideas.
What is analogy?
500
Doesn't have any limitations of regular meter or rhyme with fixed forms.
What is free verse?
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