Literature
Literature II
Literature III
Literature IV
Miscellaneous
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
100
A comparison that does not use the words like or as.
What is metaphor?
100
A conversation between two characters in a drama.
What is dialogue?
100
A long speech by one character in a drama to other characters.
What is monologue?
100
Words used to move smoothly from one sentence, idea, or paragraph to another.
What is transition word?
200
Giving a non-human object human-like qualities. The chair weeped when the large man sat down.
What is personification?
200
The emotions created in a reader when reading a story.
What is mood?
200
The triumphs, failures, and events that a character faces that raises of the tension of a story as it approaches the climax.
What is rising action?
200
Directions given to actors and directors on how to set up scenes and move people around the stage.
What is stage directions?
200
The group of people you are writing to.
What is audience?
300
The attitude an author has towards what they are writing.
What is tone?
300
The unique history and personality of a person in a story.
What is character?
300
The "beat" created by spoken words in poetry. Often compared to drums.
What is rhythm?
300
The repeating of words again and again for effect.
What is repetition?
300
A type of reasoning in which you start with a fact and apply it to a situation.
What is deductive reasoning?
400
An object that stands for more than what it actually is.
What is symbolism?
400
The repeating of consonant sounds that do not appear at the beginning of words.
What is consonance?
400
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
400
Rhyme between two or more words within only one line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
400
A type of text organization in which you arrange ideas according to time or order.
What is chronological/sequential order?
500
A type of irony in which one thing is expected to happen, but the opposite actually happens.
What is situational irony?
500
A type of irony in which the reader knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
500
A secret shared with an audience by a character in a drama.
What is aside?
500
A joke based on the different meanings of one word.
What is pun?
500
Giving your opinion on a piece of writing based on it's content or the author's ability. Different from a paraphrase or summary.
What is critique?
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