Literary Triangle
Literary Terms
The Odyssey
The Outsiders
Romeo and Juliet
100

The main character of a story

What is the protagonsit?

100

The overall mood of a story

What is the atmosphere?

100

The god to whom Odysseus usually prays

Who is Athena?

100

The narrator of the novel

Who is Ponyboy?

100

The setting of the play

What is Verona, Italy?
200

The time and place of a story

What is the setting?

200

The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words

What is alliteration?

200

Odysseus's son

Who is Telemachus?

200
The oldest brother, who has to take care of the other two

Who is Darry?

200

The priest who marries Romeo and Juliet

Who is Friar Laurence?

300

The beginning part of a story

What is the exposition?

300

When hints are given of things that will happen later in a story

What is foreshadowing?

300

Where the Greek gods live

What is Mt. Olympus?

300

The middle brother

Who is Sodapop?

300

The opposing families in the play

Who are the Capulets and the Montagues?

400

The point of highest interest in a story

What is the climax?

400

The type of reader for which a piece of literature is written

What is the audience?

400

The god who was angry with Odysseus

Who is Poseidon?

400

The Greaser with the most jail experience

Who is Dallas?

400

The noble Juliet is supposed to marry

Who is Count Paris?
500

The ending of a story, when the loose ends are tied up

What is the resolution?

500

The repetition of vowel sounds in multiple words

What is assonance?

500
Odysseus's kingdom, to which he's trying to return

What is Ithaca?

500

A fight between the Greasers and the Socs

What is a rumble?

500

Where Romeo and Juliet meet

What is a masked ball?