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One of the three major of literature, the others being prose-drama.
What is poetry.
100
A heading or sub division.
What is subheading.
100
One in which character struggles against some outside force.
What is external conflict.
100
Type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characters.
What is personification.
100
Is the story of the writer's own life.
What is autobiography.
200
A highly musical verse that expresses the observations and rhyme scheme.
What is lyric poem.
200
To provide with a edging or border.
What is margin.
200
Scheme is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme.
200
Is a work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character.
What is tragedy.
200
Is a fictional tale that explains the actions of Gods or hero's or the origins of elements of nature.
What is myth.
300
A literary work is the writer's attitude toward his or her audience toward his or her audience and subject.
What is tone.
300
Section of uninterrupted action in the act of a drama.
What is scene.
300
The repetition of initial constant sounds.
What is alliteration.
300
Is a character or a force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.
What is antagonist.
300
Three line Japanese verse form.
What is Haiku.
400
Is a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scene.
What is limerick.
400
Perspective or vantage point, from which a story is told.
What is point of view.
400
Is a struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict.
400
Is the author's use of dues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing.
400
Is a long work of fiction.
What is novel.
500
A group of lines of poetry that are usually simular in length and pattern and seperated by spaces.
What is stanza.
500
Figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between 2 unlike things.
What is simile.
500
Is a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
What is metaphor.
500
Is a division or type of literature .
What is genre.
500
Is a prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
What is fiction.