Level 1: Light & Literal
Q: The choice of words in writing.
A: What is diction?
Q: The voice of the poem.
A: What is the speaker?
Q: This term refers to the main character in a story.
A: What is the protagonist?
Q: A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
A: What is a simile?
Q: A poem's speaker's change in thought or tone.
A: What is a shift/volta/turn?
Q: The sensory detail used to evoke feelings or describe.
A: What is imagery?
Q: The attitude of a speaker toward the subject.
A: What is tone?
Q: This narrative mode uses 'I' or 'we' to tell the story.
A: What is first-person point of view?
Q: Giving human traits to non-human things.
A: What is personification?
Q: Running a sentence over from one poetic line to the next.
A: What is enjambment?
Q: The way words are arranged in a sentence.
A: What is syntax?
Q: This term describes the emotional association of a word.
A: What is connotation?
Q: This technique drops the reader into the middle of the action.
A: What is in medias res?
Q: A reference to a well-known person, place, or thing.
A: What is an allusion?
Q: Two things placed side-by-side for contrast.
A: What is juxtaposition?
Q: The direct and literal meaning of a word.
A: What is denotation?
Q: The term for a word or phrase repeated at the beginning of clauses.
A: What is anaphora?
Q: This term refers to a narrator whose credibility is compromised.
A: What is an unreliable narrator?
Q: The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
A: What is alliteration?
Q: A pause within a line of poetry.
A: What is a caesura?
Q: A symbolic item often stands for this kind of concept.
A: What is an abstract idea?
Q: This poetic technique ends a line with punctuation.
A: What is an end-stopped line?
Q: This is a story within a story.
A: What is a frame narrative?
Q: An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
A: What is hyperbole?
Q: A repeated vowel sound in nearby words.
A: What is assonance?