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The way an author presents characters
What is characters
100
A prose narrative based on imagination
What is fiction
100
A short narrative poem
What is a ballad
100
The principal character of a play
What is a hero
100
Japanese verse using allusions and comparisons
What is a haiku
200
Based on what is actually written or expressed
What is literal
200
A legendary or traditional story; superhuman
What is a myth
200
The language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people
What is an idiom
200
Light verse, five lines, rhyming aabba, usually naughty in nature
What is limerick
200
The repetition of similar sounds
What is rhyme
300
Theme
What is a concept, frequently recurring ideas
300
Structure
What is the framework of a work of literature
300
Monologue
What is a speech by one person in a drama
300
Oxymoron
What is a figure of speech in which two contradictory phrases are combined for a rhetorical effect
300
Onomatopoeia
What are words that suggest their sounds
400
Hyperbole
What is obvious and deliberate exaggeration
400
Passing on of information by word of mouth
What is oral tradition
400
Irony
What is the meaning of a word is the opposite of what is intended
400
The act or habit of misusing words for comic effect
What is malapropism
400
A literary form; tragedy, comedy, epic, essay
What is genre
500
Allusion
What is reference to a person, place, event, or phrase.
500
A lengthy ficticous prose presenting an organized series of events or places
What is a novel
500
Point of view
What is the perspective from which a story is told
500
A lyric poem consisting of 14 lines
What is a sonnet
500
Symbol
What is anything that stands for something else
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