Poetry
Short Story
Nonfiction
Drama
Grab Bag
100
repetition of initial consonant sound
What is alliteration?
100
a feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work
What is suspense?
100
a type of essay that seeks to convey an impression about a person, place, or object
What is descriptive?
100
a work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character
What is tragedy?
100
a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
What is allusion?
200
poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
What is free verse?
200
amenas by which authors present material that occurred earlier than the present tense of the narrative
What is flashback?
200
the author's choice of words
What is diction?
200
a short speech delivered by a character in a play in order to express his or her thoughts and feelings
What is aside?
200
a comparison between two or more things that are similar on some ways but otherwise unalike
What is analogy?
300
a 14 line poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
What is sonnet?
300
the main character in a literary work
What is protagonist?
300
numbers used to compare members of a group of perople or things
What is statistics?
300
a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true
What is dramatic irony?
300
central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
What is theme?
400
an unrhymed 3 line lyric poem, usually focused on images from nature, in which lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables and 2 has 7
What is haiku?
400
the time and place of a story's action
What is setting?
400
the order in which things happened
What is chronological order?
400
author of Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet
What is Shakespeare?
400
the writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject
What is tone?
500
giving human qualities or abilities to non human things
What is personification?
500
the sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
500
the judgments of people with special knowledge of a subject
What is expert opinion?
500
a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage
What is soliloquy?
500
the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
What is imagery?
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