A comparison using "like" or "as"
Ex. "Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a simile?
100
A conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
100
The main idea or main point that the author is making, or what the text is mostly about.
What is the central idea?
100
The continuation of a line into the next without a pause.
What is enjambment?
100
The feeling created by a piece of literature.
Ex. Joyful, Mournful
What is mood?
200
Direct comparison
Ex. "The front is a cage."
What is a metaphor?
200
Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
200
When an author is instructing, entertaining, or persuading the reader.
What is the purpose?
200
The beat or meter (ex. iambic pentameter)
What is rhythm?
200
The author/speaker's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
300
Gives human characteristics to non-humans.
Ex. "The trees whispered in the breeze."
What is personification?
300
When the audience knows something a character does not.
Ex. Think Oedipus!
What is dramatic irony?
300
The act of coming to a conclusion based on facts or making and educated guess.
What is an inference?
300
What is the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
When a character struggles with an internal or external force.
What is a conflict?
400
A statement that is not meant to be taken literally.
Ex. "Are you pulling my leg?"
What is an idiom?
400
A reference to a person, place, or another work of literature.
Ex. In Persepolis, Marji talks about listening to Kim Wilde & Iron Maiden.
What is an allusion?
400
How a passage is organized.
Ex. Compare and contrast, cause and effect, etc.
What is structure?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
broken baby bottle
What is alliteration?
400
When two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect
Ex. Living death, jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
500
Extreme exaggeration.
Ex. "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
500
A pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages. Can be a character, plot, image, or setting.
Ex. Hero, damsel in distress
What is an archetype?
500
The use of a question for persuasion that doesn't really need to be answered by the reader.
What is a rhetorical question?
500
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
What are couplets?
500
A brief and sometimes witty story that focuses on a single interesting event, often in order to make a point or teach a moral lesson.