Literary Elements 1
Literary Elements 2
Literary Elements 3
Literary Elements 4
Literary Elements 5
100
What is language that appeals to the senses?
Imagery
100
What is a gross exaggeration?
Hyperbole
100
What is the attitude a writer takes towards his subject, character or the reader?
Tone
100
What is the writer's or speaker's distinctive use of language in a text?
Voice
100
What is a tragric flaw?
Hamartia
200
When the writer shows what a character is like through the character's thoughts, actions, and physical description.
Indirect characterization
200
What is a narrative in which characters stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities?
Allegory
200
What is a statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but that reveals a truth?
Paradox
200
What is an expression that means something different than the literal sense of the word?
Idiom
200
When the writer tell us exacty what a character is like?
direct characterization
300
What is a contrast between expectation and reality?
What is a contrast between expectation and reality?Irony
300
What is a type of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to reveal a weaknes or to bring about social reform?
Satire
300
What is the author's method of revealing what a character is like?
Characterization
300
What is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using connective words such as like or as?
Metaphor
300
What is a polite word or phrase used in place of an offensive or crude word or phrase?
Euphemism
400
What is an interruption of the present action of the plot to show events that happened earlier in time?
Flashback
400
What is a 14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter?
Sonnet
400
What is the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
Assonance
400
What is the repeating of words, line, or phrases in a literary work?
Repetition
400
What is the vantage point from which a writer narrates or tells the story?
Point of View
500
What is a comparison between two things to show how they are alike?
Analogy
500
What is a play on the multiple meaning of a word or tow words that sound alike but have different meanings?
Pun
500
What is the use of clues to hint at events that wil occur later in the plot.
Foreshadowing
500
What are two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm or rhyme?
Couplet
500
What are the meanings associations, or emotions a word suggests?
connotation
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