Literary terms 1
Literary Terms 2
Rhetorical Techniques
& Figurative Language
Prose
Literature
100
Comparison of two things using *like* or *as*.
What is a simile?
100
A comparison of two thing without using *like* or *as*. Saying one thing is another. Ex: His heart was a bird.
What is a metaphor?
100
This is the author's attitude toward the subject of the literature.
What is tone?
100
A part of the plot that gives background information to the audience about the setting and the characters of the story?
What is the exposition.
200
The place (physical location) and time (day, season, historical period).
What is setting?
200
__________ gives human qualities to an idea or thing.
What is personification?
200
A made up story that is not true.
What is fiction
200
A related series of events that build toward the point of greatest interest?
What is rising action?
300

A comparison of two thing without using *like* or *as*. Saying one thing is another. Ex: His heart was a bird.

What is a metaphor?

300
A true account or story
What is non-fiction?
400
Indirect reference to a famous person or event.
What is an allusion.
400
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words that are near each other. Ex: pretty pink piggies.
What is alliteration?
400
The part of a plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
What is falling action?
500
The part of the story's plot line where the problem of the story is resolved or worked out.
What is the resolution?
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