Sequence of events in a story, usually involves characters and a conflict
What is Plot
100
Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually have the same meter.
What is a Couplet
100
The written text of a play.
What is a script
100
The time and place of the story or poem's action.
What is setting
100
A Play that involves the families of Capulet and Montague
What is Romeo and Juliet
200
The main character of a narrative
What is a Protagonist
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem
200
A play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word.
What is Pun.
200
Use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in the story, often used to build suspense or tension in a story.
What is foreshadowing
200
A novel by S.E. Hinton, based on Ponyboy, his family, and the other "Greasers"
What is The Outsiders
300
A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature
What is an allusion
300
A group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit.
What is a stanza
300
A story that presents courageous individuals who confront powerful forces within or outside themselves with a dignity that reveals the breadth and depth of the human spirit in the face of failure, defeat, and even depth,
What is tragedy
300
The organizing thought of an entire essay or piece of writing and which contains a subject and an opinion.
What is a thesis
300
A novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald, that deals with bootlegging, the eyes of Dr. TJ Eckelburg, a yellow car, and the American Dream.
What is The Great Gatsby
400
a type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it.
What is Metonymy
400
In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning.
What is Enjambment
400
A long speech made by a character who is onstage alone and who reveals his/her private thoughts and feelings to the audience.
What is a soliloquy
400
A condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together.
What is oxymoron
400
A poem by Robert Frost, that takes place in the woods
What is The Road Not Taken
500
A term used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader.
What is an archetype
500
a brief, pointed and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point.
What is an epigram
500
Meaning "purgation," this term describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy.