Poetic Devices
Literary Terms
Genres
Poetry
Hodge Podge
100
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
alliteration
100
The time and place of a story, play, or narrative poem.
setting
100
A person's account of his/her own life
autobiography
100
A very short humorous or nonsensical poem.
limerick
100
The author of a play, or drama.
playwright
200
Joe is a bear when he wakes up.
metaphor
200
The solving of the problem in a novel.
Resolution
200
A brief story told in prose or poetry that contains a moral.
fable
200
A poem that tells a story.
narrative poem
200
The main character in a work of literature.
protagonist
300
Buzz! Wham! Rustle!!
Onomatopoeia
300
The series of related events in a story.
Plot
300
true events
nonfiction
300
A poem that expresses feelings or thoughts.
lyric poem
300
A groupof consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
stanza
400
The rain licked at my shoes.
Personification
400
Interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
Flashback
400
A work of literature meant to be performed for an audience.
drama
400
A pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables in poetry.
meter
400
A person, place, thing, or event that stands for something beyond itself.
symbol
500
Julio is like a diamond in the rough.
simile
500
A struggle between opposing forces.
conflict
500
A novel, story, or play set during a real historical era.
historical fiction
500
Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
free verse
500
The general idea or insight about life that a work of literture reveals.
theme
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