The prevailing feeling that is created in a story. Usually created through the dialogue and the imagery.
What is mood?
100
When an object is portrayed with human characteristics
What is personification?
100
A plot device that shifts the story from the present to the past, in order to illustrate an important point or to reveal a change in character.
What is flashback?
200
"The beanstalk reached the sky"
What is fantasy
200
Shakespearean sonnet is abab cdcd efef.
What is rhyme scheme?
200
The action or process of telling a story.
What is narration?
200
A character with no development throughout the story.
What is static.
200
A comparison between two thing which are essentially dissimilar. The comparison is directly stated through words such as "like", "as", "than", "similar to", or "resembles".
What is a simile?
300
"A pair of star-crossed lovers"
What is tragedy?
300
A mournful, melancholy poem, especially a song of a lament for the dead.
What is elegy?
300
An informal record of a person's private life and day-to-day thoughts and concerns.
What is diary?
300
The main character in the story.
What is a protagonist?
300
Concrete details and figures of speech that help the reader to form vivid sense impression of what is being described.
What is image?
400
"A Daniel came to judgement"
What is allusion?
400
Two words placed closely together that are contradictory yet have have truth in them.
What is oxymoron?
400
When a character is described by the author, the narrator or the other characters.
What is direct presentation?
400
An extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field
What is legend?
400
The feeling of anxiety and uncertainty experienced by the reader about the outcome of events or the protagonist's destiny.
What is suspense?
500
"Hitler was a great example of this."
What is bias?
500
A stanza of four lines
What is quatrain?
500
This is a term used to describe the fictional persons who carry out the action in a story.
What is character?
500
An individual who recites a story, poem, or other form of media.
What is speaker?
500
When the opposite of what is meant is stated in order to intentionally hurt someone's feelings.