Literary Terms1
a story or poem that represents a larger point about society or human nature, whose different characters may represent real-life figures.
What is an Allegory?
What is Theme?
The central idea of a work. A topic or subject of discourse.
The author’s attitude toward his or her subject.
What is Tone?
What is a Rhetorical Question?
A question not meant to be answered.
What is Drake's real name?
What is Aubrey Graham?
What is Alliteration?
The repetition of first consonants in a group of words
The means by which an author establishes character.
What is Characterization?
Language that conveys a certain idea by saying just the opposite.
What is Sarcasm?
Give an example of Onomatopoeia
Student answers will vary.
What boy band was Harry Styles formerly a member of?
What is One Direction?
Define Hyperbole and provide an example.
A huge exaggeration. (Students answers will vary)
What is symbolism?
The use of one thing/object to represent another idea.
A comparison that uses “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
The use of description that helps the reader imagine how something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or taste.
What is Imagery?
Which nation won the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
Who is Argentina?
A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Define Personification
Giving inanimate object human characteristics.
a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality.
What is Irony?
Define Conflict
The elements that create a plot.
Which year was Santa Clara High School built on Saviers Rd?
What is 1951?
What is an Allusion? Provide an example.
A reference to something, someone or someplace. (Student examples will vary)
The resolution of the conflict in a plot after the climax.
What is Denouement?
Define Metaphor and give an example
A comparison that doesn’t use “like” or “as” (Student examples will vary)
Define Idiom and provide an example.
a phrase established by usage, as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. (Students answers will vary)
Name all the LA sports teams.
(Group with most wins) Clippers, Dodgers, Kings, Galaxy, Sparks, LAFC, Lakers, Rams, Chargers, Angel City FC