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A major character who opposes the main character in a story or play.
What is an antagonist?
100
The means by which an author describes the appearance and personality of a person in a story or play.
What is characterization?
100
The point of view of a piece of writing in which the narrator refers to himself as “I.”
What is first person point of view?
100
The use of words that sound like what they mean.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.
What is alliteration?
200
The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak.
What is the climax?
200
A long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure.
What is an epic?
200
A comparison that does NOT use “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
200
The main character of a novel, play, or story.
What is a protagonist?
300
A reference to something or someone, often literary.
What is an allusion?
300
To explain how things are alike.
What is the term "compare"?
300
A story that illustrates a moral, often using animals as the characters.
What is a fable?
300
A long speech by one character in a play or story (that everyone is supposed to hear).
What is monologue?
300
The action of the story that summarizes the plan of the main story.
What is the plot?
400
The overall feeling of a work, related to tone and mood.
What is the atmosphere?
400
The elements that create a plot. This can be internal or external.
What is conflict?
400
A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
A legend that embodies the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena.
What is a myth?
400
A comparison that uses “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
500
A story in which the characters represent abstract qualities or ideas.
What is allegory?
500
To explain how things are different
What is contrast?
500
Language that does not mean exactly what it says.
What is figurative language?
500
A phrase made up of two seemingly opposite words.
What is an oxymoron?
500
A question not meant to be answered.
What is a rhetorical question?
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