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100
Writing that tells about imaginary characters and events?
Fiction
100
Literary work is the writer's attitude towards his or her audience and subject?
Tone
100
Short nonfiction work about a particular subject?
Essay
100
A literary work is the time and place of the action?
Setting
100
Struggle between opposing forces?
Conflict
200
Fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the origins of elements of nature?
Myth
200
Figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between to unlike ideas?
Simile
200
Brief work of fiction?
Short Story
200
The use of words that imitate sounds?
Onomatopoeia
300
Figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else?
Metaphor
300
Also, called the turning point, is the high point in the action of the plot?
Climax
300
Contradiction between what happens and what is expected?
Irony
300
A scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events in the past?
Flashbak
300
A three-line Japanese verse form?
Haiku
400
Section of uninterrupted action in the act of a drama?
Scene
400
Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally?
Figurative Language
400
A long work of fiction?
Novel
400
Combines elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact?
Science Fiction
400
A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separating by spaces?
Stanza
500
Reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art?
Allusion
500
Story written to be preformed by actors?
Drama
500
A division or type of literature?
Genre
500
A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
Character
500
Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter?
Free Verse
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