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The problem or struggle between or among characters or forces in a story.
What is "conflict"?
100
The use of words to create vivid pictures and ideas in the mind of a reader.
What is "figurative language"?
100
The catagory or type of literature based on its style, form, or content (e.g. mystery, adventure, romance, science fiction, etc.).
What is "genre"?
100
A character that plays a very prominent role in a story.
What is a "main character"?
100
The action or sequence of events that make up a story.
What is "plot"?
200
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is "point of view"?
200
The time of day or the year, historical period, place, and/or situation in a story.
What is the "setting"?
200
This is a strategy for analyzing a subject by looking at the reasons for specific actions or events and the consquences or results of certain causes.
What is "cause and effect"?
200
This is the way an author presents a character by using the character's actions, dialogue, description, or how others react to her/him.
What is "characterization"?
200
To use examples to show how things are different in one or more important ways.
What is "contrast"?
300
A literary technique in which an author uses symbols to represent concrete ideas, events, or relationships. For example: two characters in a story work together to plant a garden, which could show how they began a deep, meaningful relationship together.
What is symbolism?
300
She is as lovely as a rose!
What is simile?
300
Her writing grade shot up like a rocket after she turned in that project!
What is a simile?
300
A figure of speech in which something non-human is given human characteristics or powers. Example: The storm screamed across the plains.
What is personification?
300
His voice was a beacon in the dark night.
What is a metaphor?
400
A short narrative that teaches a moral or lesson. The main characters are usually animals that speak and act like humans.
What is a fable?
400
This is a fanciful tale about real life problems, usually with imaginary characters such as fairies, trolls, or leprechauns.
What is a fairy tale?
400
A narrative piece (e.g. epic, legend, myth, fable) that is part of the oral or written tradition of a culture passed from generation to generation.
What is a folktale?
400

A long narrative that recreates an historical period or event based on fact, but embellished with imagined conversation and details.

What is historical fiction?

400

A traditional or legendary story that deals with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes; intended to explain mysteries of the natural world or the customs or ideals of a society.

What is a myth?

500

The use of a word whose pronunciation suggests its meaning. Example: meow, buzz

What is onomatopeia?

500
An association that a word calls to mind in addition to its dictionary or literal meaning.
What is conotation?
500

A reference to a well-known work of literature, a famous person, or historical event with which the reader is assumbed to be familiar.

What is an allusion?

500

A persuasive technique that attempts to get people to follow the crowd using the poor reasoning that "everyone likes it, so it must be good."

What is "bandwagon"?

500

A line in a poem that 

What is a ballad?

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