Stories
Poetry
Flowery Language
Persuasion
Fiction
100
A one-sided and often stereotypical character
What is flat character?
100
The time and place of the action in a literary work
What is setting?
100
Writing that is innovative, imaginative, and not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language?
100
Persuasive technique that appeals to logic
What is logos?
100
The central message or lesson of a literary work
What is theme?
200
The sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
200
A group of lines of poetry usually similar in length and pattern, separated by spaces
What is stanza?
200
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
What is simile?
200
A one sentence statement that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay or research paper
What is thesis statement?
200
A speaker or person who tells the story
What is narrator?
300
A fully developed character that exhibits many traits, often both faults and virtues
What is round character
300
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
300
The use of words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Persuasive technique that appeals to emotion
What is pathos?
300
The author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
400
Words that describe details about a character; they are always adjectives
What are character traits?
400
Anything that stands for or represents something else
What is symbol?
400
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
What is metaphor?
400
Persuasive technique that appeals to the authority
What is ethos?
400
A message about life that is expressed regularly in many different cultures and time periods
What is universal theme?
500
Identify the five parts of plot structure (in order)
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
500
A contradiction between what happens and what is expected
What is irony?
500
A type of figurative language in which a non-human object is given human characteristics
What is personification?
500
Persuasive technique that appeals to a sense of urgency
What is kairos?
500
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole?
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