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Who is telling the story?
Plot
Poetry
Figurative Language
Characterization
100
What literary term can be defined as the person telling the story?
What is the narrator?
100
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
100
What is a song that tells a story, usually about love, death, or betrayal?
What is a ballad?
100
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
100
What literary term is used when characters are having a conversation?
What is dialogue?
200
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is the point of view?
200
The part of the plot where the action begins is known as what?
What is the rising action?
200
Touch, Taste, Sound, Smell, and Sight are examples of what literary term?
What are sensory details?
200
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
200
What drives a character's actions?
What is motivation?
300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?
What is the resolution?
300
What is a poem called that does not follow a regular pattern of rhyme or meter?
What is free verse?
300
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
300
When characters take actions or change their behavior or their attitudes, they are considered what kind of character?
What is a dynamic character?
400
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint, this is what point of view?
What is third person point of view?
400
What literary term is used for the order of events that unfold over time?
What is chronological order?
400
What type of poem consists of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g?
What is a sonnet?
400
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is verbal irony?
400
What is the main character in the story called?
What is the protagonist?
500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, this is known as which point of view?
What is omniscient point of view?
500
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
500
The associated or secondary meaning of a word, which is not the dictionary definition is called what?
What is connotation?
500
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
500
What literary term describes when a writer shows us a characetr but allows us to interpret for ourselves what kind of a person we are meeting?
What is indirect characterization?