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
The voice talking in a poem.
Who is the speaker?
100
Rhymes at the end of lines.
What are end rhymes?
100
A group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech.
What is refrain?
100
A poem that tells a story.
What is a 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
A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination.
What is poetry?
200
Poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
300
A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
What is personification?
300
One of the characters, using the personal pronoun I, is telling the story.
What is 1st person point of view?
300
The use of words with sounds that echo their sense.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
A songlike poem that expresses a speaker's feelings.
What is lyric poem?
400
The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
400
The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is 3rd person limited point of view?
400
In a poem, a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit.
What is stanza?
400
The repetition of accented vowel sound and all sound following them in words close together in a poem.
What is rhyme?
400
The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
500
A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.
What is figure of speech?
500
The overall emotion created by a work of literature.
What is mood?
500
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science.
What is allusion?
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
The feelings and associations that a word suggests.
What is connotation?
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