Interpreting Literature
Literary Elements
Literary Devices
Literature Terms
Poetry
100

the author's message to the reader

What is theme?

100

the events that make up a story  (They set the structure of the story.)

What are plot elements?

100

an extreme exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

100

the author's reason or intent for writing

What is author's purpose?

100

poem that contains 14 lines with a rhyming couplet in the last two lines

What is a sonnet?

200

the author's attitude toward his subject

What is tone?

200

the perspective from which a story or narrative is told

What is point of view?

200

two literary devices that both make a comparison

What are similes and metaphors?

200

two types of methods an author uses to reveal character traits and personalities

What is direct and indirect characterization?

200

the repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs

What is rhyme?

300

three types of irony

What are verbal

situational

dramatic?

300

the introduction of a character or event that starts the action of a story

What is the inciting incident?

300

a reference in literature to a person, place, or idea that has cultural significance

What is an allusion?

300

text that is usually factual; purpose is to explain, inform, argue, describe (rather than entertain) 

What is nonfiction?

300

the voice used by an author to tell a poem (should  not be automatically equated with the author)

What is the speaker?

400

the feeling the reader is supposed to feel based on the author's diction

What is mood?

400

two types of conflict

What are external and internal conflict?

400

A statement that seems to be contradictory, but contains a truth

What is a paradox?

400

a short and interesting story, or an amusing event, often used to support or demonstrate some point

What is an anecdote?

400

rhyming pattern, meter, grammar, and imagery used by a poet to convey meaning

What is the structure of a poem?

500

the author's way of writing that is unique to him or her

What is author's style?

500

Name all six plot elements in order.

What are exposition

inciting incident

rising action

climax

falling action

resolution?


500

placing two things side by side for the purpose of making a comparison

What is juxtaposition?

500

text that includes literary elements and devices usually associated with fiction to report on actual person, places, or events

What is literary nonfiction?

500

the pattern in a sonnet that contains five sets of stressed and unstressed syllables in a sonnet

What is iambic pentatmeter?

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