Literary Devices
Literary Forms
Literary Elements
Additional Vocabulary
More Literary Devices
100
literary reference to a familiar thing
What is allusion?
100
a writer's story about his or her own life
What is autobiography?
100
person or thing working against the main character or hero of a story
What is antagonist?
100
a literary work whose content is based on imagination, not fact
What is fiction?
100
the repitition of the same consonant
What is alliteration?
200
an event from the past presented in a present, out of order in the story
What is flashback?
200
writing that deals with life in a humorous way, often poking fun at peoples mistakes
What is comedy?
200
main character of a story
What is protagonist?
200
a book of maps
What is atlas?
200
speech that reflects pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar coming from a character
What is dialect?
300
words or phrases that convey the opposite meaning or expected outcome
What is irony?
300
lengthy, fictional, written story
What is novel?
300
where the action takes place
What is setting?
300
a complete piece of writing, as a report or essay that is part of a newspaper, magazine, or book
What is article?
300
figure of speech that is exaggeration or overstatement
What is hyperbole?
400
the use of words that imitate sounds
What is onomomatopoeia?
400
a short story that often uses talking animals as main characters and teaches an explicit moral or lesson.
What is a fable?
400
main idea; the point; a statement (usually about life or the human condition)
What is theme?
400
an alphabetical listing that gives page numbers or books where information can be found
What is index?
400
words of phrases that appeal to reader's senses
What is imagery?
500
literary device used to make fun of human weakness
What is satire?
500
a literary work that uses the familiar spoken form of language, sentence after sentence
What is prose?
500
sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
500
another word for magazine; a type of book that provides information at easy access
What is periodical?
500
techniques a writer uses to develop a character on: what he/she does or says, what other characters say about he/she
What is characterization?
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