Narrative Vocabulary
Literary Devices 1
Literary Devices 2
Literary Devices 3
Random Trivia
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This term refers to when and where a story takes place.

What is Setting?

100

This term refers to a character with a fully developed personality. 

What is a round character?

100

This word is when an author assigns human characteristics to a non-human thing (e.g., The wind howled). 

What is personification? 

100

This word is a description that helps readers imagine how something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes.

What is imagery?

100

iTunes originally released in this year. 

What is 2001?

200

This term refers to what it's called when two characters talk with one another.

What is dialogue?

200

This word makes a direct comparison by using words such as "like" or "as." (e.g., He was as lazy as a dog.)

What is a simile?

200

This word makes a direct comparison without using words such as "like" or "as." (e.g., She has a heart of gold.)

What is a metaphor?

200

This word means to use words, people, objects, or situations to represent something other than their literal meaning (e.g., The color white in western literature can mean purity or innocence). 

What is symbolism?

200

This invention by Alexander Graham Bell was patented in 1876.

What is the telephone?

300

This term refers to the main problem of the story. 

What is conflict?

300

This term refers to what a work is really about without mentioning anything specific about the plot, character, or setting. 

What is theme?

300

This term is another name for the main character in a story. 

What is a protagonist?

300

This word means when a description of something that occurs before the story and interrupts the narrative.

What is a flashback?

300

This national dish of Spain is a rice dish typically made with saffron and seafood.

What is paella?

400

This term refers to when an author "sets the scene" for their story (i.e., typically happens right at the beginning of the narrative).

What is exposition? 

400

This term refers to when the narrator uses "I" or "me" pronouns when telling a story.

What is 1st person POV? 

400

This term refers to when the author hints to the reader what the character is like by describing their appearance, speech, thoughts, feelings, and/or interactions with other characters. (e.g., John snapped at the man without warning.)

What is indirect characterization?

400

This word means to hint at future events in a story (e.g., In Romeo and Juliet, the prologue reveals the story is about "a pair of star-crossed lovers [who] take their lives"

What is foreshadowing?

400

She became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.

Who is Margaret Thatcher?

500

This term refers to the emotional high point / turning point of a story.

What is the climax?

500

This term refers to the character that opposes the main character in a story. 

What is an antagonist?

500

This term refers to an over exaggeration (e.g., "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!")

What is a hyperbole or overstatement?

500

This word means to reference a person, place, event or thing to enhance a text's meaning (e.g., "The Raven" referencing a bust of Pallas).

What is allusion?

500

This element has the highest atomic number that occurs naturally.

What is Uranium (92)?

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