Exaggerated statements that are not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
100
A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share common characteristics.
What is a metaphor?
100
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Giving a non-human object human characteristics.
What is personification?
100
An indication or warning of a future event.
What is foreshadowing?
200
A word that is a sound.
What is an onomatopoeia?
200
A decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in the plot.
What is the climax?
200
Characters that are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and don't change throughout the course of the story.
What is a flat character?
200
A conversation between two characters.
What is dialogue?
200
Literature based on facts (biography, autobiography, etc.)
What is Nonfiction?
300
The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of the main character.
What is third person limited point of view.
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! A long literary work that has characters and a plot.
What is a novel?
300
A literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change as a change in personality or attitude.
What is a dynamic character?
300
A literary device used for expressing a resistance the protagonist of the story finds in the way of achieving their external aggressors or can arise within the self.
What is Conflict?
300
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is Genre?
400
In literature, a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
What is mood?
400
Using figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that appeals to our physical senses.
What is Imagery?
400
The main character of the story. Usually "the good guy."
What is the protagonist?
400
A group of lines forming the basis recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse
What is a stanza?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! A verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a poem, usually after the stanza.
What is a refrain?
500
A literary compound of composition which shows the attitude toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
What is tone?
500
The choice or use of word or phrases in a speech or writing.
What is diction?
500
Literal meaning of the word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
What is denotation?
500
The central topic a text treats in a piece of writing.
What is theme?
500
The associations that people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition.