A figure of speech in which a human quality is given to an animal, object, or idea.
What is Personification
100
The time and place which the events of a story take place.
What is Setting
100
The person who wrote the play/drama.
What is Playwright
100
The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech, poem, or piece of writing.
What is Repetition
100
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View
200
The sequence of events in a literary work.
What is Plot
200
What a selection or story is mostly about.
What is Main Idea
200
A figure of speech that compares seemingly unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as."
What is Metaphor
200
A figure of speech USING "like" or "as" to compare seemingly unlike things.
What is Simile
200
Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm.
What is Free Verse
300
A point of view in which the narrator is a character in the story who reveals personal thoughts and feelings, and cannot reveal the thoughts and feelings of other characters; uses the pronoun "I".
What is First Person
300
The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader using figurative language, descriptive words, and imagery.
What is Mood
300
The use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
What is Onomatopoeia
300
Poetry that tells a story.
What is Narrative Poetry
300
The pattern formed by the end rhyme in a poem. This is shown by the use of a different letter of the alphabet to name each new rhyme.
What is Rhyme Scheme
400
The part of the story which conflict develops, complications arise, and suspense builds, and it ends with the climax or turning point of the story.
What is Rising Action
400
The introductory material which gives the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters, introduces the conflict, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.
What is Exposition/Introduction
400
The action that takes place in a story after the climax and it resolves the conflict.
What is Falling Action
400
That point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest; usually the point at which the conflict is resolved.
What is Climax / Turning Point
400
The final part of a play or short story in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
What is Denouement / Resolution
500
Language that emphasizes sense impressions that help the reader see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things described in the work.
What is Imagery
500
A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work.
What is Theme
500
Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a sense of a character's personality to the reader.
What is Characterization
500
Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer.
What is Third Person
500
The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginnings of words and syllables.