Is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence.
What is a plot?
100
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as.
What is a Simile?
100
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
What is a satire?
100
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
100
An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
200
The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
What is a personification?
200
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
What is Irony?
200
An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
What is Idiom?
200
Obvious and intentional exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
200
A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
What is a Analogy?
300
Resemblance of sounds.
What is Assonance?
300
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”
What is a Metaphor?
300
A device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
What is a Flashback?
300
The surroundings or environment of anything.
What is Setting?
300
A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.