Fiction Terms
Which literary term means the central message or lesson of the story?
This is the theme.
Which literary term means what the text is mostly about?
This is main idea.
Which literary term means the person who wrote the poem?
A poet
Which literary term means a type of play that involves the ruin of the leading character, something disastrous happens?
This is a tragedy
Which literary term means giving human qualities to nonhuman things?
This is personification.
Which literary term means the perspective from which the story is told?
This is the point of view.
Which literary term means putting all or part of a text you read into your own words?
This is paraphrase.
Which literary term means a group of lines, or a paragraph for poems?
This is a stanza
Which literary term means a long speech by one single character to other characters?
This is a monologue
Which literary term means comparing two things using like or as?
This is simile.
Which literary term means the character's qualities?
These are character traits or characterisation
Which literary term means a passage or genre of text that explores real-life people, places, things, and events?
This is nonfiction.
Which literary term means poetry that does not have any end rhyme?
This is free verse.
Which literary term means the introductory scene of a play?
This is a prologue
Which literary term means an extreme exaggeration?
This is hyperbole.
Which literary term means where and when the story takes place?
This is the setting.
Give one examples of a non-fiction sub-genre
Memoir, Auto-biography, Biography, Cookbook, Self-help, etc.
Which literary term means the pattern of end rhyme in a poem?
This is end rhyme.
Which literary term means a lighter type of drama that is amusing and ends well?
This is a comedy.
When a poet writes the bees buzzed or the wind whooshed, they are using this device to mimic real-life sounds.
This is onomatopoeia.
Which literary term means the problem of the story?
This is the conflict of a story.
This is a short statement at the beginning of a nonfiction piece that summarizes the main idea.
thesis statement
Which literary term means the use of the same words over and over again?
This is repetition
Which literary term tells the actors where to go and what to do on stage?
This is stage directions.
Which literary term compares two things not using like or as?
This is metaphor.