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Imagery
Poetry
Figurative Language and Literary Devices
Plot and Characters
Potpouri
100
Visual
What is imagery you can see?
100
couplet
What is a pair of lines that form a unit?
100
Symbol
What is a person, place, or thing used to represent something else?
100
Plot
What is a sequence of events in a literary work that involves characters and conflict?
100
Irony
What is a word or phrase that means th eopposite of a literal meaning?
200
Tactile
What is imagery you can touch or feel?
200
Alliteration
What is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds?
200
Simile
What compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
200
Antagonist
Who opposes the hero?
200
Point of View
What is the perspective from which a story is told?
300
kinetic
What is imagery that has to do with movement?
300
Assonance
What is the repetition of vowel sounds?
300
Metaphor
What is a comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison is used?
300
Protagonist
Who is the main charater or the hero?
300
Mood
What is the feeling a text arouses in its reader?
400
Olfactory
What is imagery you can smell?
400
Consonance
What is the repetition of middle or final consonant sounds?
400
Hyberbole
What is an exaggeration or overstatement of the truth?
400
Conflict
What is the primary source of tension in the story (i.e. man vs man, man vs nature, man vs technology, man vs himself)?
400
Sonnet
What is a poem containing 14 lines written in iambic pentameter?
500
Organic
What is imagery having to do with the body (i.e. pulse, breathing, hearts pounding)?
500
Meter
What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
500
Personification
What describes an animal, object, or idea with human characteristics?
500
Denouement
What is the resolution of the porblem or complication in the story?
500
Onomotopoeia
What is the use of words whose sound defines its meaning (i.e. "plop" or "ring")