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The repetition of the same vowel sound in a phrase.
What is Assonance
100
Short musical narrative song or poem
What is Ballad
100
A person or animal in a literary work
What is a character
100
Writing thatconveys information by appealing to the senses.
What is description
100
Short tale, teaches a moral.
What is a fable
200
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a phrase.
What is Alliteration
200
Account of a person's life written by someone else.
What is a Biography
200
A person that remains the same in a story.
What is a static character
200
A story written to be perfomed by actors before an audience.
What is a drama
200
Kind or category of literature.
What is genre
300
Representing animals as if they had human emotions and intelligence.
What is anthropomorphism
300
A character that changes in a story.
What is a dynamic character
300
A comment made by a character that is heard by the audience, but not the others on stage.
What is an aside
300
Language spoken by a particular region, social or ethnic group.
What is dialect
300
Narrarator uses "I/Me/us/our"
What is First-Person Point of View
400
Author makes a reference to well known people, places, situtions, music or art assuming you know about them.
What is allusion
400
The point of greatest intensity and interest in a story.
What is the climax
400
Type of drama that is humerous.
What is comedy
400
Conversation between characters.
What is dialogue
400
No fixed pattern of meter, rhume, line length or stanzas.
What is Free Verse
500
A person or force that opposes the central character in a story.
What is an antagonist
500
The struggle in a story.
What is the conflict
500
Two successive lines of verse that form a unit and rhyme.
What is a couplet
500
Beginning part of the story that introduces characters, setting and situation.
What is the exposition
500
Form of literature that explores unreal worlds from past, present or future.
What is Fantasy
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