A long fictional story, whose length is normally somewhere between a hundred and five hundred book pages, which uses all of the elements of the storytelling: plot, character, setting, theme, and point of view
What is novel?
100
A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
What is meter?
100
The central idea of a work of literature
What is theme?
100
Prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places
What is nonfiction?
100
A fixed idea or conception of a character which does not allow for any individuality
What is stereotype?
200
In general, a story that ends happily
What is comedy?
200
A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines
What is refrain?
200
The vantage point from which the writer has chosen to tell the story
What is point of view?
200
A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations
What is poetry?
200
An unusually long speech in which a character on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
What is soliloquy?
300
A story that is written to be acted out in front of an audience
What is drama?
300
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
What is free verse?
300
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot
What is foreshadowing?
300
A short fictional prose narrative that usually makes up about ten to twenty book pages
What is short story?
300
The voice who is talking to us in a poem
What is speaker?
400
A long story told in poetry which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society
What is epic?
400
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
400
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
What is diction?
400
A play, novel, or other narrative, depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
What is tragedy?
400
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
What is couplet?
500
A story in which the characters and settings and events stand for certain other people or events or concepts
What is allegory?
500
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
What is stanza?
500
An adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing
What is epithet?
500
A kind of writing that is intended to create a mood or emotion, or to re-create a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an experience
What is description?
500
A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality– between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true