How the author creates lifelike characters
What is a characterization?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term? Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"
What is a symbol?
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
What is connotation?
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what. Creating a picture with words.
What is imagery?
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is irony?
A character that shows only one trait and does not change at all during the course of the story is known as what?
What is a flat character?
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues and changes throughout the course of the story is known as what?
What is a round character?