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Know your literary terms
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Identify clearly and definitely
What is Specify?
100
Relevant or applicable to a particular matter
What is pertinent?
100
The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events
What is an abstraction?
100
The person telling the story who may or may not be a character in the story.
What is a narrator?
100
A word that is intended to simulate the actual sound of the thing or action it describes
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience
What is Arbitrary?
200
Not allowing something to pass through
What is impervious?
200
Originate from; produced by
What is an abstraction?
200
When the writer clues the reader about something that will eventually happen in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
A story that includes morals and ethics.
What is a parable?
300
To clear from blame
What is Vindicate?
300
Based on a random choice or personal whim rather than a reason or system
What is empirical?
300
The main character of a story
What is a protagonist?
300
On a plot diagram, this is the first part of the diagram- in the beginning of the story.
What is an exposition?
300
Treating abstractions or inanimate objects as human, that is, giving them human attributes, powers, or feelings.
What is personification?
400
A new idea, method or product
What is an innovation?
400
Be enough or adequate
What is suffice?
400
Contrasting seemingly unalike things to enhance the meaning of a situation or theme using like or as. Example- “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
What is a simile?
400
On a plot diagram, this is the highest point on the diagram.
What is climax?
400
The arrangement of ideas and/or incidents that make up the story.
What is the plot?
500
Possible to do easily or conveniently
What is feasible?
500
Coming after something in time; following
What is subsequent?
500
A character that remains the same (does not change) through out the story.
What is a static character?
500
On a plot diagram, this is the last action in the plot.
What is the resolution?
500
This literary term is described as an exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
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