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What is a story of extraordinary deeds that is handed down from one generation to the next?
What is a legend
100
What is the overall feeling of a work of literature?
What is mood
100
What is a story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other supernatural forces?
What is myth
100
What is the series of related events that make up a story?
What is plot
200
What is an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing?
What is metaphor
200
What is a poem that tells a story?
What is narrative poem
200
What are the reasons a character behaves a certain way?
What is motivation
200
What is the vantage point from which a story is told?
What is point of view
300
What is a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts or attitudes?
What is personification
300
What is prose writing that deals with real people, things, events and places?
What is nonfiction
300
What is a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination?
What is poetry
300
What is the kind of writing that tells a story?
What is narration
400
What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry?
What is meter
400
What is a contrast between expectation and reality?
What is irony
400
What is a very short humorous nonsensical poem? It has five lines, a definite rhythm and an AA BB A rhyme scheme.
What is limerick
400
What is a contrast between what is said and what is really meant?
What is verbal irony
500
What occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen?
What is dramatic irony
500
What is a poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a poem?
What is lyric poem
500
What occurs when the audience or reader knows something a character does not know?
What is situational irony
500
What are the devices a writer uses to develop style and convey meaning?
What are literary devices