A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings
What is an Allegory
100
The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work
What is Characterization
100
series of events which take place after the climax
What is Falling Action
100
A brief story, told or written in order to teach a moral lesson
What is Parable
100
A piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work
What is Satire
200
Used for poetic effect, a repitition of the initial sounds of several words in a group
What is an Alliteration
200
The decisive moment in a drama
What is Climax
200
A reference to an event which took place prior to the beginning of a story or play
What is Flashback
200
A situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not
What is Paradox
200
A figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be found, and which uses the words "like" or "as" in the comparison
What is Simile
300
A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work
What is an Allusion
300
The repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry
What is Consonance
300
A character in a play who sets off the main character or other characters by comparison
What is Foil
300
A literary work that imitates the style of another literary work
What is Parody
300
In drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud
What is Soliloquy
400
A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work
What is an Antagonist
400
A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming
What is Couplet
400
In drama, a method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come
What is Foreshadowing
400
A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics
What is Personification
400
A lyric poem of fourteen lines whose ryhme scheme is fixed
What is Sonnet
500
A comparison between two similar things. In literature, a work which resembles another work either fully or in part
What is an Analogue
500
A far-fetched simile or metaphor
What is Conceit
500
Unrhymed Poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern
What is Free Verse
500
The structure of a story
What is Plot
500
A device in literature where an object represents an idea