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Element that creates the excitement of a story and often requires a resolution. Types include external and internal.
What is Conflict?
The technique of placing two things close together to highlight their differences.
Where a story is taking place.
What is the Setting?
Built in order to keep the reader engaged in the story and on the edge of their seat.
What is Suspense?
When a character faces insurmountable challenges, often with an unhappy ending. Shakespeare specialized in these.
What is Tragedy?
Describes the structure of character building. Types include flat, round, dynamic, and static.
What is Characterization?
What is a Foil
Defines who's perspective a piece of literature is from.
What is Point of View?
The message that an author is ultimately trying to convey with a piece of literature.
What is the Theme?
Primarily focuses on two or more characters navigating love. Can be incorporated into other genres.
What is Romance?
Subcategory of literature. Types of this include haiku, limerick, elegy, quatrain, lyric, free verse, and acrostic.
What is Poetry?
A statement that contradicts itself or is both true and false simultaneously.
What is a Paradox?
Vivid description used to paint a picture in the reader's mind.
What is Imagery?
Used to indirectly reference or implies reference to a person, event, or thing.
What is Allusion?
When an author uses blatantly exaggerated humor and irony to criticize or comment on someone or something, it falls under this category.
What is Satire?
Literary device used to talk about one thing by using another. Types include conventional, implied, extended, mixed, visual, and dead.
What is a Metaphor?
A pairing of logically contradicting words for emphasis or a specific effect.
What is an Oxymoron?
When a story is taken back in time and interrupts the chronological order of events to provide context.
What is a Flashback?
A repeating element such as a person, word, song, or symbol that holds significance in a piece of literature.
What is a Motif?
A shorter story often unrealistic and told to portray a very specific moral or lesson.
Element. Types include regular, dramatic, situational, verbal, socratic, tragic, poetic, and cosmic.
What is Irony?
A literary technique where the writer changes the word order of a sentence for the purpose of emphasis or dramatic effect.
What is Inversion?
The specific emotion or atmosphere an author is building by using devices such as tone, theme, setting, etc.
What is the Mood?
When an author attempts to hint or clue the reader in on something that happens later in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is a Parody?