Images that appeal to our senses of sight, taste, smell, hearing, and touch.
What is sensory details?
100
Relating a series of events in time order, from start to finish.
What is chronological order?
100
A contrast between expectation and reality -between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true.
What is irony?
100
A long, uninterrupted speech presented in front of other characters.
What is a monologue?
100
A contrast between what the audience perceives and what a character does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
200
The emotional effect of the story.
What is mood?
200
A rhetorical figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a "deafening silence" and a "mournful optimist."
What is an oxymoron?
200
A reason that explains or partially explains why a character thinks, feels, acts, or behaves in a certain way. This results from a combination of the character's personality and the situation to be dealt with.
What is motivation?
200
A comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them; using the words "is" or "was."
What is a metaphor?
200
A writer's choice of words for clarity, effectiveness, and precision.
What is diction?
300
The idea the writer wishes to reveal about the subject of the story. AKA: The moral of the story.
What is theme?
300
When a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different.
What is verbal irony?
300
A comparison made between two dissimilar things through the use of a specific word of comparison such as "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
300
Language that appeals to any sense or any combination of the senses.
What is imagery?
300
A descriptive adjective or phrase used to characterize someone or something.
What is an epithet?
400
Conflict that occurs when a character struggles against an outside force such as another character, society as a whole, or something in nature.
What is external conflict?
400
Occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or when there is a contradiction between what we expect to happen and what really does take place.
What is situational irony
400
The humorous use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time.
What is a pun?
400
A character who sets off another character by contrast.
What is a foil?
400
A self-revealing speech presented by a character in a play delivered alone onstage, addressing himself or herself.
What is a soliloquy?
500
Conflict that takes place entirely in a person's mind.
What is internal conflict?
500
A figure of speech in which and animal, object, natural force, or idea is given a personality and described as human.
What is personification?
500
A scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to show what happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
500
Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense.
What is figurative language?
500
A reference in one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature or in history, art, or music.