The overall message being portrayed to the reader by the author.
What is theme?
100
The main character of a story, the "good guy".
What is the protagonist?
100
A written account of another person's life.
What is a biography?
100
The basic dictionary meaning of a word, without its connotations.
What is denotation?
100
The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
What is personification?
200
Comparing two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The character in opposition of the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
200
A literary work about the writer's own life.
What is an autobiography?
200
The suggesting of additional meanings by a word or expression, apart from its denotative meaning, often an implied meaning.
What is connotation?
200
The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
The comparison of two things not using the words like or as.
What is metaphor?
300
The outline or plan of action of a narrative or drama, also referred to as the story line.
What is the plot?
300
A written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic or issue showing both sides, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
What is an article?
300
To engage in an argument or discussion that inovlves opposing viewpoints.
What is a debate?
300
The use of the same consonant or of a vowel, not necessarily the same vowel, at the beginning of each word or each stressed syllable in a line of verse, as in:
Around the rock the ragged rascal ran.
What is alliteration?
400
The arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
The class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration.
What is fiction?
400
An article in a newspaper or other periodical presenting the opinion of the publisher, editor, or editors.
What is an editorial?
400
The humorous or mildly sarcastic use of words to imply the opposite of what they normally mean.
What is irony?
400
Obvious and intentional exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
500
A form of an extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative have meanings outside the narrative itself. An ________ has two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
What is allegory?
500
A person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.
What is a narrator?
500
To induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; convince.
What is persuasion?
500
The choice and use of words in writing or speech used by author to convey a certain effect to the audience.
What is diction?
500
Poetry without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme.