Literary Language
A return to an earlier time in the course of a narrative to introduce prior information.
What is a flashback.
The base element of the word.
What is the root.
Life is like a box of chocolates
What is a simile.
Five line, humorous poem
What is a limerick
Name the two types of conflict.
What is internal and external.
The emotional atmosphere produced in the reader by an author’s use of language.
What is mood.
Common prefix that means "self".
What is "auto".
Time is a flat circle.
What is a metaphor.
A song-like narrative poem, usually featuring rhyme, rhythm, and refrain.
What is a ballad.
What are the two types of characters in a story?
What is static and dynamic.
The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing.
Common prefix meaning "not, none"
What is "un" OR What is "dis".
The repetition of initial consonant sounds that are close together.
What is alliteration.
Poetry with neither regular meter nor rhyme scheme.
What is free verse.
Name the three points of view and explain the difference in each.
What is first person (the "I" perspective), third person limited (narrator is limited to the thoughts of one person), third person omniscient (narrator can hear the thoughts of many people)
This is used to express a writer’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone.
Common root meaning to "speak" or "say".
What is either "dict" or "dic".
The sea mourned for poor Annabel Lee.
What is personification.
The rhyme scheme of this section of a poem is __________?
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness
What is ABABCC.
Name three of the 5 elements of the plot of a story.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
To make judgments or draw conclusions based on what an author has implied.
What is an inference.
Common root which means "writing".
What is "graph".
I'll sleep when I'm six feet under.
What is an idiom.
A fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm.
What is meter.
Two prefixes which mean "before" and "after"
What are "pre" and "post"