Books
Story Elements
Literary Devices
Sound Devices
Figurative Language
100
A synonym for form or type when referring to literature
What is genre?
100
The time and place of a story or play
What is setting?
100
Language which appeals to the senses
What is imagery?
100
Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem
What is rhyme?
100
Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
What is metaphor?
200
A narrative in which situation and characters are invented by the writer
What is fiction?
200
A person or character in a story of poem
What is a character?
200
Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect
What is hyperbole?
200
The pattern or flow of sounds created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllable in a line or poetry
What is rhythm?
200
Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things using a connective word such as like or as
What is simile?
300
Prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places
What is non-fiction?
300
The vantage point from which a story is told
What is point of view?
300
Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
What is dialogue?
300
The repetition of a consonant sound?
What is alliteration?
300
Type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as it it were human
What is personification?
400
An account of an individual's life, written by another person
What is biography?
400
The attitude of the author toward his audience and characters
What is tone?
400
Using any object, person, place, or experience that means more than what it is, it stands for something else
What is symbolism?
400
The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggest its meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
400
A phrase or expression that does not mean what it literally says
What is idiom?
500
The account of a person's life written by that person
What is autobiography?
500
The feeling created by a literary work or passage
What is mood or atmosphere?
500
A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
What is irony?
500
The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together
What is assonance?
500
A combination of contradictory terms
What is oxymoron?
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