Elements of Literature
The Epic
Literary Terms
Poetry
Etc.
100
The character working against the main character.
What is antagonist?
100
A long narrative poem about a hero's adventures.
What is an epic poem?
100
Character or voice from whose point of view a story is told.
What is narrator?
100
A poem, or a stanza, with four lines.
What is a quatrain?
100
When the audience knows something the character(s) does not.
What is dramatic irony?
200
Attitude a writer takes toward a subject.
What is tone?
200
An extended simile with details and explanation about the comparison.
What is an epic simile?
200
The voice (in poetry) that talks to the reader; not always the poet.
What is speaker?
200
A poem, or stanza, with eight lines.
What is an octet?
200
Sarcasm: "My students just LOVE homework!"
What is verbal irony?
300
The feeling the reader feels toward the story.
What is mood?
300
The hero of an epic poem.
What is an epic hero?
300
An author's use of the senses to describe a scene.
What is imagery?
300
Two consecutive lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
300
A form of language as spoken in a particular region or by a particular people.
What is dialect?
400
A point of view that allows the reader to know what is happening with all the characters.
What is third person omniscient?
400
A descriptive phrase that renames a character.
What is epithet?
400
A term containing normally contradictory terms. Example: jumbo shrimp.
What is oxymoron?
400
A poem, or stanza, with six lines.
What is sestet?
400
A character who is one-dimensional; the reader does not know much about him/her.
What is a flat character?
500
The lesson or moral of a story.
What is theme?
500
The epic hero's main character flaw that leads to all of his misfortunes.
What is tragic flaw?
500
An author's building of tension.
What is suspense?
500
Assigning letters to each line of a poem based on the words that rhyme.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
A statement that seems to contradict but is usually true.
What is a paradox?
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