Using like of as to compare two apparently unlike things.
What is a simile?
100
The most interesting, and important part of a story.
What is Climax?
100
A category of literary composition.
What is a genre?
100
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
What is a Stanza?
100
Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
What is Poetry
200
Any type of literary used for descriptive effect.
What is Figurative language?
200
The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
What is Falling Action?
200
Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
What is Science Fiction?
200
A heading given to a subsection of a piece of writing.
What is a Subheading?
200
The practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea.
What is a Symbol?
300
A direct comparison between two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
300
The plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
What is a Plot?
300
An account of a person's life written by that person.
What is an Autobiography?
300
The space around the printed or written matter on a page.
What is a Margin?
300
A pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song.
What is a Rhyme Scheme?
400
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
400
The point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out.
What is a Resolution?
400
Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is Non-Fiction?
400
A brief descriptive word or phrase that introduces or summarizes a document or a section within a document.
What is a Heading?
400
The voice behind the poem – the person we imagine to be speaking.
What is a Speaker?
500
The description of a word; what a word means.
What is a definition?
500
The time or place in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place.
What is a Setting?
500
An account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
500
A reference, explanation, or comment placed below the main text on a printed page.
What is a Footnote?
500
A regularly recurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song.