Literary Terms
This is the narrative technique in which the story is told by a character who uses "I" and whose perspective is limited to their own experiences and thoughts.
What is first person point-of-view?
The time and place where a work of fiction takes place.
What is setting?
When something is described as one thing, but it is actually another thing.
What is metaphor?
Poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non-rhyming lines.
What is free verse?
When two or more characters are speaking.
What is dialogue?
This is a novel that is written primarily through letters between characters.
What is an epistolic novel?
The narrative perspectives used in fiction.
What is point-of-view?
When an inanimate object is given human-like characteristics.
What is personification?
Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection.
What is a couplet?
When one character is speaking for a significant period of time.
What is a monologue?
This is a situation where a story is told from the perspective of someone the reader can't trust.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The sense of feeling conveyed by the author.
What is tone?
Ordinary language or vernacular.
What is a colloquialism?
The continuation of a sentence beyond the line break.
What is enjambment?
Parenthetical instructions for actors or stage managers.
What are stage directions?
This is a genre that idealizes country life.
What is bucolic?
The messages that are meant to be conveyed through a work of fiction.
What is theme?
When a part is used to signify a whole.
What is synechdoche?
A poetic lament upon the death of a person.
What is an elegy?
When a character "breaks the fourth wall" and speaks to the audiences.
What is an aside?
The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical stucture, or ideas.
What is antithesis?
The way a story or plot is organized.
What is structure?
An address or invocation to something that is inanimate.
A poetic stanza of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
When a character narrates their thoughts out loud.
What is a soliloquy?