A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes for the reader
What is mood?
100
"Boy, I love the farm! I have a great time picking cotton everyday with Jim Bob!" Which POV is this written in?
What is first person point of view?
100
A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The category that a work of literature is classified under
What is personfication?
100
play on words
What is a simile?
200
Author's word choice
What is diction?
200
Sonja and Sam had been dating for quite some time. Sam didn't know that Sonja was about to break up with him. She didn't love him Which POV is this written in?
What is third person omniscient?
200
A poem that uses dialogue to tell about love, death, or betrayal
What is a ballad?
200
An account of a person's life written or told by another person
What is a biography?
200
Voice that is talking to us in a poem
Who is the speaker?
300
A story in which characters, settings, and actions stand for something beyond themselves
What is allegory?
300
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot
What is foreshadowing?
300
Repetition of similar vowel sounds
What is assonance?
300
Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and, usually, seventeen syllables?
What is a haiku?
300
A two or three word phrase that contains opposite words or ideas
What is an oxymoron?
400
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture
What is an allusion?
400
A play that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
What is tragedy?
400
Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well
What is symbol?
400
A scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time
What is a flashback?
400
Character who is used as a contrast to another character
What is a foil?
500
All of the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definitions
What is connotation?
500
An expression that was fresh and apt when it was first coined but is now so overused that it has become hacneyed and stale
What is a cliche?
500
A metaphor that goes several lines or possibly the entire length of a work
What is extended metaphor?
500
An apparent contradiction that is actually true
What is a paradox?
500
Way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people