Literary Terms
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
“Boom,” “crash,” and “buzz” are examples of this sound word.
What is onomatopoeia?
The person who tells the story.
What is the narrator?
This text structure explains how things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
The main character in a story.
Who is the protagonist?
Words that have the same ending sound.
What is rhyme?
An exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
The attitude of the author toward the subject.
What is tone?
This structure shows events in the order they happened.
What is chronological order?
The problem or struggle in a story.
What is the conflict?
The beat or pattern of syllables in a poem.
What is rhythm?
A reference to something well-known, like a book or a myth.
What is an allusion?
The feeling the reader gets from a story.
What is mood?
This structure explains a problem and how it is solved.
What is problem and solution?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
A comparison without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
A lesson or message in a story.
What is the theme?
This structure shows the reasons why something happened and the results.
What is cause and effect?
When the opposite of what you expect happens.
What is irony?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
A phrase not meant to be taken literally (like “raining cats and dogs”).
What is an idiom?
A hint or clue about what will happen next.
What is foreshadowing?
This structure explains a topic by listing facts, steps, or details.
What is description?