Genre
Poetry
Literary Devices
Elements of a story
Misc
100
An account of a person’s life
What is biography?
100
Poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme
What is free verse?
100
use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadwoing?
100
A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions
What is conflict?
100
A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people.
What is dialect?
200
A short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject from a limited point of view.
What is an essay?
200
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
What is a couplet?
200
Language that appeals to the senses
What is imagery?
200
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
What is diction?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. “Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot
What is alliteration?
300
Prose written that includes invented material and that often does not claim to be factually true.
What is fiction?
300
A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
What is an epic?
300
The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. “buzz, bark, splash.
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
The series of related events that make up a story or drama
What is plot?
300
A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
400
Poetry that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than on telling a story.
What is lyric poetry?
400
A kind of metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. “Death has reared himself a throne”
What is personification?
400
Imitation of a work of literature, art, or music for amusement of instruction
What is parody?
400
The main character in fiction or drama?
What is protagonist?
400
The repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure, or that restate a similar idea.
What is parallelism?
500
A very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about life
What is a fable?
500
A line of poetry made up of five iambs
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform
What is satire?
500
The uncertainty or anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story
What is suspense?
500
A long speech in which a character who is alone on stage expresses private thoughts or feelings.
What is a Soliloquy?
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