The time and place in which the events of a story occur.
What is the setting?
100
Representing ideas, feelings, or objects by using symbols.
What is symbolism?
100
Humor added that lessens the seriousness of the plot.
What is comic relief?
100
The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work.
What is mood?
200
When the author gives clues or hints about events that are yet to occur.
What is foreshadowing?
200
A problem or struggle the main character faces.
What is conflict?
200
Assigning human attributes to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
200
A long speech by one character in a play.
What is monologue?
200
A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature.
What is allusion?
300
Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. Very rich language that uses such devices as simile, metaphor, and personification.
What is figurative language?
300
All the events in a story that create the structure.
What is the plot?
300
The style or manner of expression conveyed by the author.
What is tone?
300
When a character speaks directly to the audience without being overheard by other characters on stage.
What is an aside?
300
When the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to characters in the play.
What is dramatic irony?
400
A literary type or form...a type of literature.
What is genre?
400
The perspective from which a story is presented to a reader.
What is point of view?
400
The main idea or message from a piece of literature.
What is theme?
400
When a character converses with himself/herself by expressing thoughts aloud while on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
400
An expression of meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning or what is expected.
What is irony?
500
Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
What is an analogy?
500
The background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of a story.
What is the exposition?
500
The method used by a writer to reveal the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
500
A fault of the protagonist which usually leads to his/her downfall or death.
What is a tragic flaw?
500
When the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters. "God like" perspective.