Literary Elements
Story Elements
Author Devices
Literary Devices
Left Overs
100
A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is simile?
100
One of the characters, using the personal pronoun I, tells the story.
What is 1st person point of view?
100
Rhymes at the end of lines.
What are end rhymes?
100
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
What is personification?
100
A poem that tells a story.
What is narrative poem?
200
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing.
What is metaphor?
200
The narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems.
What is omniscient point of view?
200
Rhymes within lines.
What is internal rhymes?
200
Interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
What is flashback?
200
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
What is stanza?
300
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
300
The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is 3rd person limited point of view?
300
The patterns of rhymes in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
The use of words whose sound imitate or suggest their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
400
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science.
What is allusion?
400
The reversal of the normal word order of a sentence.
What is inversion?
400
The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
What is rhyme?
400
The series of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
400
A story of extraordinary deeds that is handed down from one generation to the next.
What is legend?
500
The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together.
What is assonance?
500
The overall feeling of a work of literature.
What is mood/atmosphere?
500
A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns.
What is rhythm?
500
A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines.
What is refrain?
500
A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination
What is poetry
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