a reference to another event, person, place, or work of literature - usually implied rather than explicit and often provides another layer of meaning to what is being said
What is allusion
100
a literary technique created through the combined effects of a number of features, such as diction, syntax, rhythm, etc.
What is Tone
100
an account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is Biography
100
a play for theater, radio, or television.
What is Drama
100
a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
What is Cartoon
200
The use of clues that hint at important plot developments that are to follow in a story or a drama.
What is Foreshadowing
200
The central idea or ideas the creator explores through a text.
What is Theme
200
fiction that has become part of an accepted literary canon, widely taught in schools
What is Classic
200
fiction with strange or otherworldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality
What is Fantasy
200
A representation or imitation of a person’s physical
or personality traits that are so exaggerated they
become comic or absurd
What is Caricature
300
at its simplest level, it means saying one thing while meaning another
What is Irony
300
the sequence of events in a poem, play, novel, or short story that make up the main story line
What is Plot
300
a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.
What is Encyclopedia
300
Any work of literature that includes material that is invented or imagined, that is not a record of things as they actually happened.
What is Fiction
300
scripted fiction told visually in artist drawn pictures, usually in panels and speech bubbles
What is comic or graphic novel?
400
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; it actually states that one thing is the other
What is Metaphor
400
The time and the place in which the action of a book, film, play, and so on happens. Setting may also include mood and atmosphere.
What is Setting
400
an opinion piece that appears on a page in the newspaper dedicated solely to them, often written by a subject-matter expert, a person with a unique perspective on an issue, or a regular columnist employed by the paper.
What is Opinion Column
400
story about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children
What is Fairy Tale
400
a sheet of information in the form of a table, graph, or diagram.
What is Chart
500
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.
What is Metonymy
500
The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience.
What is Mood
500
a short account of the news
What is News Report
500
fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread and sometimes fear in both the characters and the reader
What is Horror
500
a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused onto film or other light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally.