The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved.
What is climax?
100
In a story, play, or novel, the series of events that builds from the conflict.
What is rising action?
100
The sequence of events that follow the climax and end in the resolution.
What is falling action?
100
A type of figurative language in which the author states less than what is literally true to create an effect
What is Understatment?
100
The way an author presents his/her characters.
What is characterization?
200
A figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words like or as.
What is simile?
200
A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.
What is personification?
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as.
What is metaphor?
200
An author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The feeling/emotions that a literary work conveys to readers.
What is mood?
300
The use of words that mimic sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
Type of irony which occurs when the speaker means something totally different than what he is saying or the audience realizes.
What is verbal irony?
300
The type of irony that occurs when the audience or reader knows more than the characters know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
In general terms, anything that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
300
The sequence of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
400
Type of irony in which what happens is the opposite of what is expected or intended.
What is situational irony?
400
The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.
What is theme?
400
In a story, play, or novel the moment that rounds out and concludes the action.
What is resolution?
400
Language that appeals to our sense. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses.
What are Sensory Details?
400
The introductory material which gives the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.
What is exposition?
500
The author’s attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject.
What is tone/voice?
500
An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect.
What is hyperbole?
500
An extended metaphor in which a person, abstract idea, or event stands for itself and for something else.
What is allegory?
500
Name the six types of conflict.
What is Man vs....self, man, society, machine, supernatural and nature.
500
A popular expression where the literal meaning of the words has nothing to do with the implied meaning of the words