The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel or other fictional text.
What is a protagonist?
100
The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.
What is symbolism?
100
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
100
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description or emphatic or vivid. Uses like or as.
What is simile?
100
“Hatred was spreading everywhere, blood was being spilled everywhere, wars were breaking out everywhere.”
What is repetition?
200
A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
What is antagonist?
200
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is plot?
200
A figure of speech in which a word or a phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is metaphor?
200
"He was a real Romeo with the ladies."
What is allusion?
300
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. It is revealed directly and indirectly.
What is characterization?
300
A main idea of an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly.
What is theme?
300
Any struggle between opposing forces. Usually, the main character struggles against some other force.
What is conflict?
300
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
What is imagery?
300
"All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances."
What is a metaphor?
400
The narrators position in relation to the story being told.
What is point of view?
400
A figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
400
The section of a literary work when loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
400
The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience.
What is mood?
400
"Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa."
What is a simile?
500
Another character in a story who contrasts with the main character, usually to highlight one of their attributes.
What is a foil?
500
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
What is allusion?
500
A literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
What is irony?
500
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.
What is tone?
500
"I had to wait in the station for ten days- an eternity."