A figure of speech where animals, ideas or inorganic objects are given human characteristics.
What is personification
100
A sentence having 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound, complex sentence.
100
The main character or lead figure in a movel, play, story or poem
What is the protagonist
100
a poem of 14 lines, usually with a specific rhythmic pattern and rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet
100
The narrator, or the storyteller, of a literary work created by the author.
What is a persona.
200
A type of figurative langauge in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but, literally, it is not.
What is a metaphor
200
a noun that appears singular in formal shape but denotes a group of persons or objects, example: herd, jery, clery
What is a collective noun
200
The character or voice that relates the story's events to the reader.
What is the narrator
200
A nonfiction work that an author writes about his/her own life.
What is an autobiography
200
a contrast betwen expectation and reality, and this incongruity often has the effect of surprising the reader or viewer
What is irony
300
a narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events, in order to provide background for the current narration.
What is a flashback
300
The image or feeling the word produces, its is the motion evoked by the word
What is connotative meaning
300
The central focus of a discussion or essay.
What is the controlling issue.
300
A play written to entertain or amuse, usually with a happy ending.
What is a comedy
300
Messages that evoke strong feelings in order to persuade instead of using facts and evidence to make a point.
What is an emotional appeal
400
A gross or extreme exaggeration done to humor or emphasize meaning.
What is hyperbole
400
A brief and often simple narrative that illustrates a moral or religious lesson.
What is a parable.
400
Puts a character agaainst nature, society, or another character
What is external conflict
400
a song that tells a story, often with a tragic ending
What is a ballad
400
a character whose traits contrast with those of another character.
What are character foils
500
A figure of speech which substitutes one term with another that is being associated with that term.
What is metanymy
500
Accounts of events written by people who were directly involved in or witnessed the event.
What is a primary source
500
a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented externally.
What is limited point of view
500
a type of literature defined as a song or poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died