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A story in which a person or an object takes on a symboliv meaning.
What is allegory?
100
the turning point of a story
What is the climax
100
the literal meaning of a word
What is denotation
100
demonstrates a moral lesson
What is a fable?
100
the person telling the story
What is the narrator
200
When a writer refers to a character from another novel.
What is an allusion?
200
a person or element presented as a person
What is a character
200
the outcome of a story
What is denouement
200
a fabricated story
What is fiction
200
Any fictional book-length narrative
What is a novel
300
The person or force in opposition to the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
300
a comparison between two stunningly dissimilar things
What is a conceit
300
has to do with a writer's choice of words
What is diction
300
language that is not to be taken literarlly.
What is figurative language
300
A long short story
What is novella
400
This device is used when a character speaks directly to something that is not human.
What is an apostophre?
400
the emotional content of a word or a phrase
What is connotation
400
A poem of expressing sorrow about a death
What is elegy
400
the character whose actions contrast with those of the main character
What is a foil
400
prose writing that focuses on real events
What is nonfiction
500
a clever one-line observation about life.
What is an aphorism
500
person vs. person/persons vs. society/person vs. nature/person vs. self
What is the four basic kinds of conflicts
500
an apt quotation that supports the theme of a literary work
What is epigraph
500
this occurs when hints or clues suggest what may happen.
What is Foreshadowing.
500
a long, formal, lyric poem about a lofty subject
What is ode