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Literary terms 1
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Figurative language
100
The story of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
100
The high point of excitement or action in a story.
What is the climax?
100
The teller of the story.
What is the narrator?
100
A person, place or thing that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
100
A type of figurative language comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
A story that is often part of a culture's religion, explains how the world came to be or why natural events happen.
What is a myth?
200
The beginining of a story, where we meet the characters, learn the setting, etc.
What is the exposition?
200
When a story is told from the point of view of one of its characters.
What is first person?
200
A look into the past at some point in a story/movie.
What is a flashback?
200
Making a point by using extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
300
All writing that is not poetry is called:
What is prose
300
The period following the beginning, where the conflict/problem is building up.
What is the rising action?
300
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
300
Language that is not meant to be understood exactly as it is written.
What is figurative language?
300
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
400
A short story or poem with a moral (lesson about life), often with animals that act like humans.
What is a a fable?
400
The period after the climax, when the "loose ends" are being wrapped up, etc.
What is the falling action?
400
The person (or thing) working against the main character in a story.
What is the antagonist?
400
This is a false name an author uses for writing. (like Mark Twain)
What is a pen name?
400
Used more often in poetry -- using words that have the same/similar beginning sounds.
What is alliteration?
500
A written work that shows a writer's opinion on some basic fact or current issue.
What is an essay?
500
The conclusion of the story.
What is the resolution, or "denouement?"
500
Name three different kinds of conflict in literature.
What is: Person vs. person Person vs. self Person vs. nature Person vs. society
500
This is humorous writing that makes fun of foolishness or evil.
What is satire?
500
Using words that sound like their definitions.
What is onomatopoeia?