Poetry
Plot
Figurative Language
Figurative Language II
Literature
100
Free Verse
What is poetry written without regular meter and rhyme patterns?
100
Setting
What is the time and place in which a story unfolds?
100
Personification
What is giving human characteristics to a concept or inanimate object?
100
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning?
100
Fable
What is a story intended to teach a moral lesson. Animals which human characteristics often serve as characters.
200
Meter
What is the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?
200
Rising Action
What is the part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated, leading up to the climax?
200
Simile
What is the comparison of two unlike things using "as" or "like"?
200
Idiom
What is an expression that cannot be understood if taken literally.
200
Flashback
What are events that happened at an earlier time?
300
Limrick
What is a five line poem which lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme?
300
Resolution
What is the part of a story following the climax, in which the story's main conflict is resolved?
300
Hyperbole
What is an exaggeration or overstatement.
300
Understatement
What adds force to an image by presenting it in a deliberately weak way? (opposite of hyperbole)
300
Foreshadowing
What is a suggestion that an event is going to occur in the future?
400
Sonnet
What is a lyric poem of 14 lines
400
Conflict
What is the struggle in the story (example: man vs. man)
400
Metaphor
What is the comparison of two things NOT using "as" or "like"?
400
Imagery
What is a word or group of words in a writing which speak to one or more of the senses (sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell).
400
Genre
What is a category used to classify writing; types of literature
500
Haiku
What is a Japanese verse form that contains exactly 17 syllables and is usually about nature?
500
Theme
What is the message or the main idea of the story?
500
Alliteration
What are words that repeat beginning consonant sounds?
500
Symbolism
What is a device in literature in which an object represents an idea?
500
Persuade, Entertain, Inform
What is author's purpose?
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