Who is telling the story?
PLOT
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100
What literary term can be defined as the person telling the story?
What is the narrator?
100
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
100
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
100
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
100

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?

200
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
200
The part of the plot where the action begins is known as what?
What is the rising action?
200
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
200
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
200
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
300

This is a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words 

(e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light )

What is an idiom?

300
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close is known as what?
What is the falling action?
300
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
300
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
300

The three rhetorical appeals that help persuade the audience/reader. 

Ethos, Pathos and Logos

400

A rhetorical device where a word or words are repeated at the beginning of successive lines.

What is anaphora

400

This device assigns human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things.

What is personification?

400

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?

What is imagery?

400
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?
400

A reference to something in music, art, literature, pop culture that the author wants the reader to make a connection to. 

What is allusion?

500


A figure of speech that puts together opposite elements. The combination of these contradicting elements serves to reveal a paradox, confuse, or give the reader a laugh.

What is an oxymoron?

500
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
500
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
500
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?
500

What literary term is shown in this example?

 "We are striving to forge a union with purpose/To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and/conditions of man"(Gorman). 

What is alliteration (the repetition of the consonant sound 'c'?

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