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Literary Terms
Syntax
Drama
Style
Imagery
100
Repetition of vowel sounds
What is Assonance
100
Short composition on a particular theme/topic
What is Essay
100
A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his own thoughts
What is Soliloquy
100
Any writing that isn't poetry
What is Prose
100
Seeing
What is Visual
200
Images of a literary work
What is Imagery
200
Text meant to be read aloud in front of a group of people
What is Speech
200
The arrangement of items, such as furniture, props, and talent, in a shot
What is Staging
200
The historical period that shapes a work of literature and allows the reader to understand important issues in a given time period
What is Historical Context
200
Hearing
What is Auditory
300
Conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea
What is Stereotype
300
Word choice
What is Diction
300
The specific instructions a playwright includes concerning sets, characterization, delivery, etc.
What is Stage Directions
300
Comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement
What is Humor
300
Tasting
What is Olfactory
400
Combination of opposites e.g. jumbo shrimp
What is Oxymoron
400
The verbal exchange between characters
What is Dialogue
400
A type of lyric poem in which a character addresses distinct but silent audience imaged to be present in the poem
What is Dramatic Monologue
400
Vantage points from which a story is told
What is Point of View
400
Tasting
What is Gustatory
500
Deliberate exaggeration
What is Hyperbole
500
Mode of expression in language
What is Style
500
A (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor
What is Monologue
500
Long narrative poem in formal, elevated style that chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation
What is Epic
500
Feeling
What is Tactile