Row 1
The central message of a literary work.
What is theme?
The central character in a piece of Literature.
What is protagonist?
Word choice.
What is diction?
The writer's/speaker's attitude towards something.
What is tone?
The telling of a story.
What is narration?
The practice of beginning several words with the same sound (Hint: Tongue twisters).
What is alliteration?
The sequence of events in a piece of Literature.
What is plot?
The repetition of accented vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
This is the primary type of verbal irony.
What is sarcasm?
A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person/place/thing.
What is allusion?
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
The job Ms. Martinez had before teaching.
The opposite of what is actually meant.
What is verbal irony?
A comparison of two dissimilar items THROUGH the use of the words "like" or "as."
What is simile?
The college Ms. Martinez attended & graduated from.
What is NJCU?
Anything that means itself & also represents something larger than itself.
What is symbol?
A scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.
What is flashback?
The repetition of sounds appearing close to each other in a poem.
What is rhyme?
An intentionally outrageous exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
A type of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is (the opposite of hyperbole).
What is understatement?
This type of metaphor is when part of the whole is used to represent the whole- OR- the whole is used to represent a part of it.
What is synecdoche?
A statement that contradicts itself but results in showing a "hidden truth."
What is paradox?
Placing side-by-side parallel words, phrases, & clauses for the purpose of contrast.
What is antithesis?
When the absent are spoken as if present or the inanimate as if animate.
What is apostrophe?
Stylistic techniques including rhyme, assonance, consonance, alliteration, & onomatopoeia.
What are sound devices?