Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
Literary Terms 3
Literary Terms 4
Literary Terms 5
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The author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot.
What is exposition.
100
A chrarcter is experiencing conflict with something in Nature.
What is Man vs. Nature.
100
A character is struggling with something inside himself or herself.
What is Man vs. Self.
100
The high point of the conflict in a story.
What is Climax.
100
A figure of speech in which "like" or "as" is used to make a comparison between ideas that are basically dissimiliar.
What is Simile.
200
Occurs in a character who experiences opposing ideas or feelings.
What is Internal Conflict
200
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view.
200
There is a narrator describing the action is not "in" the story and the narrator has the ability to see and describe everything about the story.
What is Third Person.
200
The conflict lessens.
What is Falling Action.
200
A comparison between two things without using "Like" or "As".
What is a metaphor.
300
The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience.
What is Mood.
300
The conflict of the story is resolved.
What is resolution.
300
Any careful detailing of a person, place, thing, or event.
What is description.
300
A character is experiencing conflict with another person or persons.
What is Man vs. Society.
300
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
What is Rhyme.
400
A character who seems to have only a single surface or aspect to his or her personality.
What is Flat Character
400
The narrator is one of the characters and refers to himself or herself as "I".
What is First Person.
400
The series of events that leads to the climax of the story.
What is Rising Action.
400
An object, person, or idea that represents somthing beyond itself.
What is a Symbol.
400
The use of any element of language (a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or stanza) more than once.
What is Repetition.
500
The central idea that is communicated in a literary work, sometimes expressed directly and stated clearly.
What is theme.
500
A character with an array of traits (not all good or bad).
What is round character.
500
That quality of a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events
What is Suspense.
500
A technique that gives human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
What is Personification.
500
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration.
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