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Literary Terms
Poetry
Figurative Language
Story Elements
Elements of Drama
100
A category in which a work of literature is classified.
What is Genre
100
Poems that tell a story; contains chracters and plot; longer poems
What is Narrative Poetry
100
Language that appeals to one or more of your senses
What is Imagery
100
Time and place of the action in a story
What is Setting
100
Major genre, or category, meant to be performed
What is Drama
200
True account of a person's life written by another person; told from 3rd person p.o.v.
What is Biography
200
A word or group of words written horizontally across the page
What is Line
200
A comparison between two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as"
What is Metaphor
200
Ties up the loose ends of a story; sometimes offers an unexpected twist before the story ends
What is Resolution
200
Errors and mistakes that lead to prosperity and happiness
What is Comedy
300
A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature
What is Allusion
300
Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry
What is Internal Rhyme
300
When two or more words start with the same consonant sound
What is Alliteration
300
A struggle between forces
What is Conflict
300
Piece of action in a drama; usually changes when the setting changes; a collection of these make up an act
What is a Scene
400
Method of narration; narrator is a character in the story; uses the pronouns "I" or "we" in the narration
What is 1st person p.o.v.
400
Pattern of end rhymes in a poem noted by giving a letter of the alphabet, beginning with "a," to each line; lines that rhyme are given same letter
What is Rhyme Scheme
400
Words that sound like what they mean
What is Onomatopoeia
400
A sudden insightful increase of understanding through an event in the story; normally happens to the main character
What is Epiphany
400
Instructions for actors and stage crew, usually set in italics
What is Stage Direction
500
A feeling of growing tension and excitement felt by the reader; makes reader curious about the outcome of the story
What is Suspense
500
Four-line stanza
What is Quatrain
500
An expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words (i.e. raining cats and dogs)
What is Idiom
500
Series of events in a story
What is Plot
500
Written conversation between two or more people; dramas are told primarily though this; however, unlike fiction, quotation marks are NOT used
What is Dialogue